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14-letter words containing h, o, m, y, e

  • methyl alcohol — a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, poisonous liquid, CH 4 O, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood or the incomplete oxidation of natural gas, or produced synthetically from carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used chiefly as a solvent, a fuel, and an automobile antifreeze and in the synthesis of formaldehyde.
  • methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
  • methyl formate — a colorless, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 2 H 4 O 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a solvent.
  • methylcatechol — guaiacol.
  • methylthionine — as in methylthionine chloride, a dark green dye used as a stain, antiseptic etc
  • microchemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with minute quantities of substances.
  • mmx technology — Matrix Math eXtensions
  • money changing — the business of exchanging one currency for another, with the deduction of a commission for the service.
  • money-changing — the business or act of exchanging currency, usually of different countries, esp. at a set rate
  • 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).
  • moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
  • moral theology — the branch of theology dealing with principles of moral conduct.
  • mos technology — (company)   A microprocessor design company started by some ex-Motorola designers, shortly after the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 appeared, in about 1975. MOS Technology introduced the 650x series, based on the Motorola 6800 design, though they were not exact clones for legal reasons. The design goal was a low-cost (smaler chip) design, realized by simplifying the decoder stage. There were no instructions with the value xxxxxx11, reducing the 1-of-4 decoder to a single NAND gate. Instructions with the value xxxxxx11 actually executed two instructions in paralell, some of them useful. The 6501 was pin-compatible with the 6800 for easier market penetration. The 650x-series had an on-chip clock oscillator while the 651x-series had none. The 6510 was used in the Commodore 64, released September 1981 and MOS made almost all the ICs for Commodore's pocket calculators. The PET was an idea of the of the 6500 developers. It was completly developed by MOS, but was manufactured and marketed by Commodore. By the time the it was ready for production (and Commodore had cancelled all orders) MOS had been taken over by Rockwell (Commodore's parent company). Just at this time the 6522 (VIA) was finished, but the data sheet for it was not and its developers had left MOS. For years, Rockwell didn't know in detail how the VIA worked.
  • mother country — the country of one's birth or ancestry.
  • myelencephalon — the posterior section of the hindbrain comprising the medulla oblongata.
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
  • neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
  • nonhomogeneity — composition from like parts, elements, or characteristics; state or quality of being homogeneous.
  • not merely sth — You use not merely before the less important of two contrasting statements, as a way of emphasizing the more important statement.
  • oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
  • oligocythaemia — a condition in which a person lacks red blood cells
  • ophthalmometry — the measurement and determination of the eye's defects and powers of refraction
  • overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • oxyhaemoglobin — the bright red product formed when oxygen from the lungs combines with haemoglobin in the blood
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • paroemiography — the writing or collecting of proverbs
  • petrochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with petroleum or its products.
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • photochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
  • photogrammetry — the process of making surveys and maps through the use of photographs, especially aerial photographs.
  • phytochemistry — the branch of biochemistry dealing with plants and plant processes.
  • piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
  • primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
  • psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
  • pyrophotometer — a form of pyrometer that measures temperature by optical or photometric means.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scratch monkey — (humour)   As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's a very detailed account that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
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