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14-letter words containing h, u, m, p

  • microcephalous — Microcephalic.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
  • not up to much — If you say that something is not up to much, you mean that it is of poor quality.
  • one-upsmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • opossum shrimp — any small, shrimplike crustacean of the order Mysidacea, the females of which carry their eggs in a pouch between the legs.
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
  • plymouth sound — an inlet of the English Channel in SW Devon, SW England
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • podophthalmous — relating to a crustacean
  • polymorphously — in a polymorphous manner
  • posthumousness — the fact of being posthumous
  • prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
  • pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • put on the map — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • put the moz on — to jinx
  • radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
  • rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • south thompson — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • sulphonium ion — a positive ion produced by the addition of a proton to the sulphur atom of a thiol or thio-ether
  • sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
  • sulphur-bottom — blue whale.
  • thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • tomato ketchup — sauce made from tomatoes
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