13-letter words containing h, u, m, i
- ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- foot-in-mouth — (of a statement) inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent.
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- give mouth to — to express in speech; say
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
- hail columbia — hell (used as a euphemism): He caught Hail Columbia for coming home late.
- half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
- hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
- hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
- herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hermit thrush — a North American thrush, Hylocichla guttata, noted for its complex and appealing song.
- hexamethonium — a compound, C 10 H 24 N 2 , used in the treatment of severe hypertension to lower blood pressure and increase blood flow by blocking transmission of nerve impulses that constrict blood vessels.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- homosexualism — A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) individuals of the same sex.
- homosexuality — sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housemistress — A female teacher in charge of a dormitory at a boarding school.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- human capital — the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community: Education is an investment in human capital that pays off in terms of higher productivity.
- human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
- humanitarians — Plural form of humanitarian.
- humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
- hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
- hydronium ion — the hydrogen ion bonded to a molecule of water, H 3 O + , the form in which hydrogen ions are found in aqueous solution.
- hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- hyperimmunize — to render highly immunized
- hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- immunity bath — the giving of testimony that is self-incriminating in order to avail oneself of the immunity granted a witness.
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inhomogeneous — lack of homogeneity.
- lake-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- light quantum — photon.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper