6-letter words containing m, a, h
- dedham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- denham — Sir John, 1615–69, English poet and architect.
- dhaman — a large, harmless, colubrid snake, Ptyas mucosus, of southern Asia, the skin of which is used in making shoes, purses, and other items.
- dhamma — essential quality or character, as of the cosmos or one's own nature.
- dharma — social custom regarded as a religious and moral duty
- dirham — a money of account of Iraq, the 20th part of a dinar, equal to 50 fils.
- drachm — drachma.
- dunham — Katherine, 1910?–2006, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- durham — a county in NE England. 940 sq. mi. (2435 sq. km).
- empath — (chiefly in science fiction) a person with the paranormal ability to apprehend the mental or emotional state of another individual.
- famish — (obsolete, transitive) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
- fathom — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- gamash — a type of long protective legging
- gorham — a town in SW Maine.
- gotham — a journalistic nickname for New York City.
- graham — made of graham flour.
- h-beam — an I-beam having flanges the same width as its web, or connecting vertical section.
- habima — a Hebrew-language theater company, founded in Moscow in 1917: now the national theater of Israel.
- haemal — Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels.
- haemin — Alternative spelling of hemin.
- haemo- — denoting blood
- hakeem — a male given name.
- hakham — a wise and learned person; sage.
- hakims — Plural form of hakim.
- hakmem — (publication) /hak'mem/ MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is "HAKMEM", which is a 6-letterism for "hacks memo".) Some of them are very useful techniques, powerful theorems, or interesting unsolved problems, but most fall into the category of mathematical and computer trivia. Here is a sampling of the entries (with authors), slightly paraphrased: Item 41 (Gene Salamin): There are exactly 23,000 prime numbers less than 2^18. Item 46 (Rich Schroeppel): The most *probable* suit distribution in bridge hands is 4-4-3-2, as compared to 4-3-3-3, which is the most *evenly* distributed. This is because the world likes to have unequal numbers: a thermodynamic effect saying things will not be in the state of lowest energy, but in the state of lowest disordered energy. Item 81 (Rich Schroeppel): Count the magic squares of order 5 (that is, all the 5-by-5 arrangements of the numbers from 1 to 25 such that all rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number). There are about 320 million, not counting those that differ only by rotation and reflection. Item 154 (Bill Gosper): The myth that any given programming language is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of powers of 2. If the result loops with period = 1 with sign +, you are on a sign-magnitude machine. If the result loops with period = 1 at -1, you are on a twos-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, including the beginning, you are on a ones-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, not including the beginning, your machine isn't binary - the pattern should tell you the base. If you run out of memory, you are on a string or bignum system. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. But the very ability to trap overflow is machine dependent. By this strategy, consider the universe, or, more precisely, algebra: Let X = the sum of many powers of 2 = ...111111 (base 2). Now add X to itself: X + X = ...111110. Thus, 2X = X - 1, so X = -1. Therefore algebra is run on a machine (the universe) that is two's-complement. Item 174 (Bill Gosper and Stuart Nelson): 21963283741 is the only number such that if you represent it on the PDP-10 as both an integer and a floating-point number, the bit patterns of the two representations are identical. Item 176 (Gosper): The "banana phenomenon" was encountered when processing a character string by taking the last 3 letters typed out, searching for a random occurrence of that sequence in the text, taking the letter following that occurrence, typing it out, and iterating. This ensures that every 4-letter string output occurs in the original. The program typed BANANANANANANANA.... We note an ambiguity in the phrase, "the Nth occurrence of." In one sense, there are five 00's in 0000000000; in another, there are nine. The editing program TECO finds five. Thus it finds only the first ANA in BANANA, and is thus obligated to type N next. By Murphy's Law, there is but one NAN, thus forcing A, and thus a loop. An option to find overlapped instances would be useful, although it would require backing up N - 1 characters before seeking the next N-character string. Note: This last item refers to a Dissociated Press implementation. See also banana problem. HAKMEM also contains some rather more complicated mathematical and technical items, but these examples show some of its fun flavour. HAKMEM is available from MIT Publications as a TIFF file.
- hallam — Arthur Henry, 1811–35, English poet and essayist.
- halmat — Intermediate language used by HAL/S.
- ham up — an actor or performer who overacts.
- hamada — a desert terrain that consists of a flat and rocky area mainly devoid of sand
- hamals — Plural form of hamal.
- hamate — hook-shaped.
- hamble — (obsolete, transitive) To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
- hamden — a town in S Connecticut.
- hameln — a city in N central Germany, on the Weser River: scene of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
- hametz — a food forbidden for use by Jews during the festival of Passover, especially a baked food, as bread or cake, made with leaven or a leavening agent.
- hamill — Dorothy (Stuart) born 1956, U.S. figure skater.
- hamish — haimish
- hamite — a descendant of Ham. Gen. 10:1, 6–20.
- hamlet — (italics) a tragedy (first printed 1603) by Shakespeare.
- hamlin — Hannibal, 1809–91, U.S. political leader: vice president of the U.S. 1861–65.
- hamlyn — Baron Paul. 1926–2001, British businessman and publisher
- hammal — (in some Muslim countries) a porter.
- hammam — (in Islamic countries) a communal bathhouse, usually with separate baths for men and women.
- hammed — an actor or performer who overacts.
- hammer — Armand, 1898–1990, U.S. businessman and art patron.
- hammon — Jupiter, c1720–c1800, American poet.
- hamose — (botany) Having the end hooked or curved.
- hamous — Alternative form of hamose.
- hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.