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16-letter words containing h, e, m, l, o, c

  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • hyperaccumulator — a plant that absorbs toxins, such as heavy metals, to a greater concentration than that in the soil in which it is growing
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
  • immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
  • incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • light microscope — microscope (def 1).
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • lithium chloride — a white, water-soluble, deliquescent, crystalline solid, LiCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of mineral water, especially lithia water, and as a flux in metallurgy.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
  • male-voice choir — a choir of male singers
  • man of the cloth — a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
  • methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
  • methyl cellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
  • mineral charcoal — a fibrous substance resembling charcoal and having a high carbon content, often occurring in thin layers in bituminous coal.
  • mnemotechnically — In a mnemotechnic manner; using mnemotechny.
  • molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
  • mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • mos technologies — MOS Technology
  • moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • new commonwealth — a term used esp in the latter part of the 20th century in Britain to describe countries in the British Commonwealth that became independent after World War II
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
  • pascal's theorem — the theorem that the lines joining adjacent vertices of a hexagon intersect the same straight line if alternate vertices lie on two intersecting straight lines.
  • perchloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
  • phenomenological — the study of phenomena.
  • photoluminescent — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • school committee — (in New Zealand) a parent group selected to support a primary school
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • shopping complex — a shopping centre
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
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