14-letter words containing h, o, r, m, i
- methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
- michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- microaerophile — An organism, especially an aerobic bacterium, that lives and thrives in environments low in oxygen.
- microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- microchemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with minute quantities of substances.
- microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
- micropathology — the branch of pathology dealing with the microscopic study of changes that occur in tissues and cells during disease.
- microphysicist — a physicist who specializes in microphysics
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- milligram hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
- milligram-hour — a unit of measure for a dose of radium expressed as the amount of radiation received by exposure to one milligram of radium for one hour.
- mind the store — to tend to business
- minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misanthropists — Plural form of misanthropist.
- mixed metaphor — the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”.
- modern english — the English language since c1475.
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- morphinomaniac — a person with an uncontrollable addiction to morphine
- morphophonemic — noting or pertaining to morphophonemics or morphophonemes.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- mortise chisel — framing chisel.
- mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- motor mechanic — a mechanic who maintains and repairs cars and other road vehicles
- mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- muhammad ghori — Mohammed of Ghor.
- mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
- multichromatic — Involving more than one colour.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- myocardiograph — an instrument for recording the movements of the heart.
- myocardiopathy — (pathology) Any disease of the myocardium.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- nephrectomized — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- non-harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- noncharismatic — a person or group not involved in the Christian charismatic movement
- norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
- north american — the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 feet (6187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 sq. mi. (24,242,400 sq. km).
- north germanic — the subbranch of Germanic that includes the languages of Scandinavia and Iceland.
- nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
- oligomenorrhea — abnormally infrequent menstruation.
- omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.