16-letter words containing h, o, m, l, e
- non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
- ophthalmoparesis — (medicine) A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
- overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
- palmerston north — a city in New Zealand, in the S North Island on the Manawatu River. Pop: 78 100 (2004 est)
- paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- pascal's theorem — the theorem that the lines joining adjacent vertices of a hexagon intersect the same straight line if alternate vertices lie on two intersecting straight lines.
- pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
- perchloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
- phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
- phenomenological — the study of phenomena.
- phlebothrombosis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein.
- photoluminescent — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
- photopolarimeter — a polarimeter that uses a photocell.
- plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
- pseudohemophilia — a clotting disorder caused by abnormal factor VIII activity, and characterized by a prolonged bleeding time but without the delayed coagulation time of hemophilia.
- residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
- room methodology — Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling
- rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- school committee — (in New Zealand) a parent group selected to support a primary school
- sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- selenomorphology — the study of the lunar surface and landscape
- self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- settlement house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- settlement-house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- shuttle movement — the movement of a component from one place to another and back to its original position
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- so help me (god) — I swear
- sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
- solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
- sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
- spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- spongy-mesophyll — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
- steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
- stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
- sulfamethoxazole — an antimicrobial substance, C 1 0 H 1 1 N 3 O 3 S, used against a variety of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, as in the treatment of certain urinary tract infections and skin infections.
- summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
- teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
- telephone number — digits dialled to reach sb by phone
- thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.