15-letter words containing m, a, s, h
- humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hyperparasitism — an organism that is parasitic on or in another parasite.
- hyperpotassemia — hyperkalemia.
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
- hypovitaminosis — Insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body.
- impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
- imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- in the same way — similarly
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
- laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
- lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
- look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- mad as a hatter — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
- mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
- make a hames of — to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
- male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- man-of-war fish — a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.
- manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
- mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
- manx shearwater — a European oceanic bird, Puffinus puffinus, with long slender wings and black-and-white plumage: family Procellariidae (shearwaters)
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- market research — investigation into consumers' needs
- market-research — to conduct market research on.
- marsh andromeda — a low-growing pink-flowered ericaceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda polifolia, that grows in peaty bogs of northern regions
- masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
- mashed potatoes — potatoes that have been boiled and then crushed into a soft pulpy mass
- masochistically — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- mass psychology — the study of the behavior of large groups of people.