16-letter words containing h, o, m, i, n
- ho chi minh city — a seaport in S Vietnam.
- home heating oil — fuel oil for domestic central heating
- home-equity loan — a loan that uses equity in the borrower's home as collateral.
- homogenized milk — milk in which the fat globules are evenly distributed
- honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
- honeymoon period — a period of popularity enjoyed by a new government, or a new occupant of a post
- housemaid's knee — inflammation of the bursa over the front of the kneecap.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
- hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
- hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
- hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
- hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
- hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
- hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
- hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
- hypoalimentation — insufficient or inadequate nourishment.
- immersion heater — a small electric coil used to heat a liquid, as a cup of water, in which it is immersed.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- in the long term — You use the expressions in the long term, in the short term, and in the medium term to talk about what will happen over a long period of time, over a short period of time, and over a medium period of time.
- in the middle of — at the centre of
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- indian meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Plodia interpunctella, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals.
- inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
- italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
- juvenile hormone — any of a class of insect and plant hormones acting to inhibit the molting of a juvenile insect into its adult form.
- kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
- kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
- knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- lightbulb moment — a moment of sudden inspiration, revelation, or recognition
- limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
- limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- machine operator — someone who operates mechanical equipment
- magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
- magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
- mahmud of ghazni — a.d. 971?–1030, Muslim Amir of Ghazni 997–1030.
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas