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14-letter words containing h, o, m, e, p, n

  • james stanhopeJames, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
  • lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • lip microphone — a microphone designed and shaped to be held close to the mouth, for use in noisy environments
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
  • magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • mechanotherapy — curative treatment by mechanical means.
  • membranophones — Plural form of membranophone.
  • mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
  • metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
  • metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
  • minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
  • miss the point — fail to understand
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
  • monophthongise — Alternative spelling of monophthongize.
  • monophthongize — to change into or pronounce as a monophthong.
  • morphophonemes — Plural form of morphophoneme.
  • morphophonemic — noting or pertaining to morphophonemics or morphophonemes.
  • morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
  • moth repellent — a chemical produced and sold to keep moths off clothes
  • mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • myelencephalon — the posterior section of the hindbrain comprising the medulla oblongata.
  • nephrectomized — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
  • on the improve — improving
  • on the rampage — behaving violently or destructively
  • one-upsmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • pension scheme — savings fund for retirement
  • permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharmacopoeian — an individual who has expert knowledge of a pharmacopoeia
  • phi-phenomenon — motion perceived by a subject, especially the illusion of movement produced when stationary stimuli, as pictures or lights, are presented in rapid succession and are sometimes in slightly different positions.
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • pimento cheese — a processed cheese made from Neufchâtel, cream cheese, Cheddar, or other cheese, flavored with chopped pimientos.
  • pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
  • polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
  • posthumousness — the fact of being posthumous
  • prominent moth — any moth of the family Notodontidae characterized by tufts of scales on the back edge of the forewing that stand up prominently at rest and give the group its name. It includes the puss moth and buff-tip as well as those with prominent in the name
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