14-letter words containing h, u, m, i
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
- harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
- harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
- harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
- hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
- hemicelluloses — Plural form of hemicellulose.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
- hippopotamuses — Plural form of hippopotamus.
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- holy communion — communion (def 1).
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
- housing market — property trade
- housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
- humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humidification — to make humid.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
- hydraulic ramp — a movable ramp operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
- hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
- hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
- immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
- inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
- khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- machado y ruiz — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1939, Spanish writer.
- magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.