14-letter words containing h, u, m, o
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
- haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
- 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
- hemicelluloses — Plural form of hemicellulose.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- 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
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- heterochromous — of different colors.
- heterosomatous — (of fish) having an abnormal or asymmetrical body type
- 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
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- holy communion — communion (def 1).
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- homeward bound — going home
- homme du monde — a man of the world; a sophisticate.
- 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.
- honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
- horse mushroom — a smooth, edible, large white-capped mushroom, Agaricus arvensis, that has the odor of anise, common in North American meadows and fields.
- household name — a person or thing that is very well known
- 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.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humidification — to make humid.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
- humoursomeness — the quality of being humoursome
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hypothalamus's — a region of the brain, between the thalamus and the midbrain, that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous system by regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc., and that acts as an endocrine gland by producing hormones, including the releasing factors that control the hormonal secretions of the pituitary gland.
- 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)
- johnny-jump-up — any of certain violets, especially Viola pedunculata, having variously colored flowers.
- khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
- machado y ruiz — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1939, Spanish writer.