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13-letter words containing h, o, m, e

  • forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
  • form the fool — to play the fool or behave irritatingly
  • formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • forty-eightmo — a book size of about 2½ × 4 inches (6 × 10 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 48 leaves or 96 pages. Abbreviation: 48mo, 48°.
  • foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
  • four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
  • franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
  • freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
  • from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
  • gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • geochemically — In a geochemical manner.
  • geomorphology — the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
  • get somewhere — to make progress
  • gilmore, john — John Gilmore
  • give mouth to — to express in speech; say
  • go to the mat — a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
  • good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
  • goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • growth market — a rapidly expanding market
  • hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
  • haemarthrosis — Alternative form of hemarthrosis.
  • haematochezia — Alternative form of hematochezia.
  • haematogenous — producing blood
  • haematologist — A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in haematology.
  • haemodialyses — Plural form of haemodialysis.
  • haemodialysis — (medicine) the use of dialysis to remove waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.
  • haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
  • hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
  • harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
  • harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.
  • harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
  • harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
  • hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
  • have a mad on — to be angry
  • he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
  • head of steam — momentum; driving power
  • heart monitor — a machine that registers the activity of the heart
  • heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
  • heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
  • helicoid cyme — an inflorescence, or cyme, in which each flowering branch gives rise to one lateral branch that is coiled snail-like and then expanded.
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