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15-letter words containing h, o, i, e

  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
  • lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • low earth orbit — (communications)   (LEO) The kind of orbit used by communications satellites that will offer high bandwidth for video on demand, television, and Internet communications. A satellite in LEO, in contrast to one in a geostationary orbit, is not in a fixed position relative to the Earth's surface so several satellites are required to provide continuous service.
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
  • lzh compression — (algorithm)   (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
  • make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • man in the moon — a fancied semblance of a human face in the disk of the full moon, so perceived because of variations in the moon's topography.
  • mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • mathematization — The process of mathematizing.
  • mechanochemical — involving the conversion of chemical energy into mechanical energy
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • mechlorethamine — a nitrogen mustard, C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and certain other cancers.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
  • melancholically — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
  • mental hospital — psychiatric institution
  • mephistophelean — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mephistophelian — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mesh connection — (in a polyphase system) an arrangement in which the end of each phase is connected to the beginning of the next, forming a ring, each junction being connected to a terminal
  • metamorphically — In a metamorphic manner.
  • metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
  • metamorphosizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphosize.
  • metanitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
  • methyl chloride — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Cl, used chiefly as a refrigerant, as a local anesthetic, and as a methylating agent in organic synthesis.
  • methylcobalamin — A cobalamin used to treat neuropathies.
  • microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
  • microaerophilic — Of, or relating to a microaerophile.
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • microphotometer — a photometer adapted for measuring the intensity of light emitted, transmitted, or reflected by minute objects.
  • microphotometry — the use of microphotometers to measure the intensity of light transmitted or reflected by very small areas
  • microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
  • misapprehension — misunderstanding.
  • mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • monomethylamine — methylamine.
  • monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
  • monthly meeting — (often initial capital letters) a district unit of local congregations of the Society of Friends.
  • more's the pity — If you add more's the pity to a comment, you are expressing your disappointment or regret about something.
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