16-letter words containing h, u, m, a, n
- hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
- insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
- italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
- jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
- john of damascus — Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.
- john von neumann — John, 1903–57, U.S. mathematician, born in Hungary.
- karelian isthmus — a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- machine language — machine code
- 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
- macpherson strut — an automobile suspension-system component that consists of a strut combined with a spring and shock absorber and connects the wheel to the frame of the vehicle.
- mahmud of ghazni — a.d. 971?–1030, Muslim Amir of Ghazni 997–1030.
- make the running — If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved.
- man of the house — the male head of a household.
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- matron of honour — a married woman serving as chief attendant to a bride
- mauchly, john w. — John Mauchly
- mcnaughten rules — (in English law) a set of rules established by the case of Regina v. McNaughten (1843) by which legal proof of insanity in the commission of a crime depends upon whether or not the accused can show either that he did not know what he was doing or that he is incapable of realizing that what he was doing was wrong
- merchant account — A merchant account is a type of bank account that allows a company to accept credit cards.
- mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
- military honours — ceremonies performed by troops in honour of royalty, at the burial of an officer, etc
- missile launcher — system that fires missiles
- month of sundays — a long time
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- mount erymanthus — a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft)
- mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
- muddleheadedness — The state of being muddle-headed.
- multi-way branch — switch statement
- munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
- munching squares — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T - see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP Machine, have been christened "munching triangles" (try AND for XOR and toggling points instead of plotting them), "munching w's", and "munching mazes". More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-changing display of some basic form, foo, on a display terminal, and does it using a relatively simple program; then the program (or the resulting display) is likely to be referred to as "munching foos". [This is a good example of the use of the word foo as a metasyntactic variable.]
- nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
- neuroepithelioma — Neurocytoma.
- norodom sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
- north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
- phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
- plymouth company — a company, formed in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America and that founded a colony in Maine in 1607.
- pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
- pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
- put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
- queen'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.