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14-letter words containing i, n, h, o, m

  • machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • macintosh iicx — (computer)   (Mac IIcx) A version of Apple's Macintosh II personal computer, introduced in 1989, with a Motorola 68030 processor running at 16 MHz and up to 128 MB of RAM (120 ns, 30-pin DRAM chips). The IIcx requires System 6.0.3 or later and requires "Mode 32" or "32-bit Enabler" to use more than 8MB of RAM. It was discontinued 1991, and in 1996 is still considered one of the best-designed Macs ever.
  • magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
  • magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
  • make a hole in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • maternity home — a house in which a pregnant woman can live until her baby is born, esp one for women who became pregnant out of wedlock and whose baby is going to be put up for adoption
  • melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • merionethshire — a historic county in Gwynedd, in N Wales.
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
  • metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
  • methanoic acid — systematic name for formic acid
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • methylthionine — as in methylthionine chloride, a dark green dye used as a stain, antiseptic etc
  • michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
  • mind the store — to tend to business
  • minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
  • misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • misanthropists — Plural form of misanthropist.
  • miss the point — fail to understand
  • mnemotechnical — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
  • model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing)   To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.
  • modern english — the English language since c1475.
  • money changing — the business of exchanging one currency for another, with the deduction of a commission for the service.
  • money-changing — the business or act of exchanging currency, usually of different countries, esp. at a set rate
  • monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
  • monolithically — of or relating to a monolith.
  • monophonically — In a monophonic manner.
  • monophthongise — Alternative spelling of monophthongize.
  • monophthongize — to change into or pronounce as a monophthong.
  • monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
  • monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
  • monotheletical — like a monothelete
  • mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
  • moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
  • moonlight flit — a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed
  • morphinomaniac — a person with an uncontrollable addiction to morphine
  • morphophonemic — noting or pertaining to morphophonemics or morphophonemes.
  • morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
  • mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • motor mechanic — a mechanic who maintains and repairs cars and other road vehicles
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