15-letter words containing h, o, m, i, n, s
- high commission — A High Commission is the office where a High Commissioner and his or her staff work, or the group of officials who work there.
- homing instinct — an instinct that enables an animal to return home after travelling great distances
- homo economicus — a theoretical human being who rationally calculates the costs and benefits of every action before making a decision, used as the basis for a number of economic theories and models
- honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
- hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- hypovitaminosis — Insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body.
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the midst of — amid, among
- incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
- inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- 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.
- man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- man-of-war fish — a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.
- 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
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- 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
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- misapprehension — misunderstanding.
- mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- mohandas gandhi — Indira [in-deer-uh] /ɪnˈdɪər ə/ (Show IPA), 1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- 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.
- morphophonemics — Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- motoring school — an organization that provides driving lessons
- mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
- neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
- neo-lutheranism — a movement begun in the 19th century in Germany and Scandinavia to revive the orthodox principles, beliefs, and practices of the Lutheran Church.
- neoarsphenamine — a derivative of arsenic formerly used in treating syphilis