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17-letter words containing m, a, h, o, n

  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • corner the market — dominate trade
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • cromwellian chair — an upright oaken chair, often with arms, having all pieces turned and a seat and back panel of leather or cloth attached with brass-headed nails.
  • damon and pythias — two friends noted for their mutual loyalty. Damon offered himself as a hostage for Pythias, who was to be executed for treason by Dionysius of Syracuse. When Pythias returned to save his friend's life, he was pardoned
  • demythologization — The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • dextroamphetamine — a dextrorotatory amphetamine, used to suppress appetite
  • dihydroergotamine — an ergot alkaloid, C 33 H 37 N 5 O 5 , used in the treatment of various types of migraine headache.
  • doberman pinscher — one of a German breed of medium-sized, short-haired dogs having a black, brown, or blue coat with rusty brown markings.
  • dog in the manger — a person who selfishly keeps something that he or she does not really need or want so that others may not use or enjoy it.
  • echoencephalogram — a graphic record produced by an echoencephalograph.
  • electromechanical — Of, relating to, or denoting a mechanical device that is electrically operated.
  • elementary school — primary school
  • encephalomyelitic — Relating to encephalomyelitis.
  • encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • exhaust emissions — Exhaust emissions are substances that come out of an exhaust system into the atmosphere.
  • fifth commandment — “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”: fifth of the Ten Commandments.
  • fifth normal form — database normalisation
  • four-part harmony — harmony in which each chord has four tones, creating, in sum, four melodic lines.
  • french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
  • from hand to hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
  • geothermal energy — Geothermal energy is energy from temperature differences inside the earth's crust.
  • go on the rampage — If people go on the rampage, they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
  • grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • great-grandmother — a grandmother of one's father or mother.
  • haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • hamiltonian cycle — Hamiltonian problem
  • hanging committee — a group of people that selects and hangs works of art to exhibit
  • harmonic analysis — the calculation of Fourier series and their generalization.
  • harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • heat of formation — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a compound is formed from its constituent atoms
  • heavy mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
  • hemoconcentration — an increase in the concentration of cellular elements in the blood, resulting from loss of plasma.
  • heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • ho chi minh trail — a network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.
  • hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
  • hold sb to ransom — If you say that someone is holding you to ransom in British English, or holding you for ransom in American English, you mean that they are using their power to try to force you to do something which you do not want to do.
  • hollerith, herman — Herman Hollerith
  • holy roman empire — a Germanic empire located chiefly in central Europe that began with the coronation of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in a.d. 800 (or, according to some historians, with the coronation of Otto the Great, king of Germany, in a.d. 962) and ended with the renunciation of the Roman imperial title by Francis II in 1806, and was regarded theoretically as the continuation of the Western Empire and as the temporal form of a universal dominion whose spiritual head was the pope.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • homogentisic acid — an intermediate compound in the metabolism of tyrosine and of phenylalanine, found in excess in the blood and urine of persons affected with alkaptonuria.
  • homovanillic acid — the end product of dopamine metabolism, C 9 H 10 O 4 , found in human urine.
  • honorable mention — a citation conferred on a contestant, exhibit, etc., having exceptional merit though not winning a top honor or prize.
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