14-letter words containing h, o, m, a, l
- chrome leather — leather tanned with chrome.
- chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
- clamshell door — Often, clamshell doors. a door consisting of two panels that spread open vertically, as those located on the underside of some cargo planes.
- come to a halt — stop suddenly
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dichotomically — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- electrothermal — concerned with both electricity and heat, esp the production of electricity by heat
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- ephemeral port — (networking) A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- football match — a match played between two football teams
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- grammar school — an elementary school.
- haematological — Alternative spelling of hematological.
- half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
- hamilton basso — Hamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
- hamilton inlet — an arm of the Atlantic in SE Labrador, an estuary of the Churchill River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- hamiltonianism — the political principles or doctrines held by or associated with Alexander Hamilton, especially those stressing a strong central government and protective tariffs.
- haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
- health problem — ailment or disorder
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- histoplasmosis — an infectious disease of the reticuloendothelial system, caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum and characterized by fever, anemia, and emaciation.