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14-letter words containing i, m, u

  • 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.
  • ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
  • Îles marquises — a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)
  • illuminatingly — In an illuminating manner.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • imaginary unit — the complex number i.
  • immaculateness — The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
  • immelmann turn — a maneuver in which an airplane makes a half loop, then resumes its normal, level position by making a half roll: used to gain altitude while turning to fly in the opposite direction.
  • immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
  • immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
  • immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
  • immunodominant — Of or pertaining to the epitope of a molecule that provokes the most intense immune response.
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
  • immunoglobulin — any of several classes of structurally related proteins that function as antibodies or receptors and are found in plasma and other body fluids and in the membrane of certain cells. Compare IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • immunosuppress — (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
  • immunotoxicity — The toxic effect of an immunotoxin on the immune system.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • imperviousness — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
  • implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • in/out of time — If you are playing, singing, or dancing in time with a piece of music, you are following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly. If you are out of time with it, you are not following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly.
  • income account — an account maintained for a particular item of revenue or income.
  • income support — welfare payment to low earners
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • incommodiously — In an incommodious manner.
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