14-letter words containing i, n, t, h, e, m
- 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
- 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
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
- hypernatraemia — a heightened concentration of sodium in the blood
- hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- in the extreme — to an excessive degree
- in the interim — for the time being, in the meantime
- in the morning — every morning
- in the name of — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- internal rhyme — a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
- isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
- kitchen midden — a mound consisting of shells of edible mollusks and other refuse, marking the site of a prehistoric human habitation.
- knight templar — Templar.
- lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
- machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
- magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
- 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.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- mariana trench — a depression in the ocean floor of the Pacific, S and W of the Mariana Islands: site of greatest known depth of any ocean. 36,201 feet (11,034 meters) deep.
- 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
- mathematicians — Plural form of mathematician.
- matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
- medicine chest — bathroom cabinet
- mental healing — the healing of a physical ailment or disorder by mental concentration or suggestion.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- 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
- met enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- methane series — alkane series.