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15-letter words containing h, u, t, m

  • euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
  • faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
  • fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
  • flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
  • french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
  • freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
  • get the jump on — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
  • heather mixture — cloth made from a mixture of different yarns, predominantly grey but with flecks of different colours
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
  • hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
  • home automation — the control of domestic appliances by electronically controlled systems
  • homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
  • honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
  • hop-o'-my-thumb — a very small person, as a midget or dwarf.
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • housemistresses — Plural form of housemistress.
  • human condition — mortality
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • humanitarianism — humanitarian principles or practices.
  • humanitarianist — humanitarian principles or practices.
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunt the wumpus — (games, history)   (Or "Wumpus") /wuhm'p*s/ A famous fantasy computer game, created by Gregory Yob in about 1973. Hunt the Wumpus appeared in Creative Computing, Vol 1, No 5, Sep - Oct 1975, where Yob says he had come up with the game two years previously, after seeing the grid-based games Hurkle, Snark and Mugwump at People's Computing Company (PCC). He later delivered Wumpus to PCC who published it in their newsletter. ESR says he saw a version including termites running on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1972-3. Magnus Olsson, in his 1992-07-07 USENET article <[email protected]>, posted the BASIC source code of what he believed was pretty much the version that was published in 1973 in David Ahl's "101 Basic Computer Games", by Digital Equipment Corporation. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and M"obius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five "crooked arrows"; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus (which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location (later versions added "anaerobic termites" that ate arrows, bat migrations and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured ADVENT and Zork and was directly ancestral to both (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). There have been many ports including one distributed with SunOS, a freeware one for the Macintosh and a C emulation by ESR.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
  • hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
  • lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • lithium battery — A lithium battery is a type of battery used for low-power, high-reliability, long-life applications, such as clocks, cameras and calculators.
  • lithium citrate — a white crystalline solid sometimes used in the treatment of manic-depressive illness and mania. Formula: Li3C6H5O7
  • lutzow-holm bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land.
  • lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
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