13-letter words containing m, a, t, c, h
- honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
- human capital — the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community: Education is an investment in human capital that pays off in terms of higher productivity.
- humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
- hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
- hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
- hypermetrical — Hypermetric.
- hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
- hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- iatrochemical — relating to iatrochemistry or iatrochemists
- iceman cometh — a play (1946) by Eugene O'Neill.
- idiochromatic — (of a mineral) deriving a characteristic color from its capacity to absorb certain light rays.
- impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- inharmonicity — the quality of being inharmonic
- john mccarthy — (person, artificial intelligence) A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- machicolation — an opening in the floor between the corbels of a projecting gallery or parapet, as on a wall or in the vault of a passage, through which missiles, molten lead, etc., might be cast upon an enemy beneath.
- machilipatnam — a city in E Andhra Pradesh state, in S India, on the Bay of Bengal: first British trading settlement 1611.
- machinability — The condition of being machinable.
- machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- macrolecithal — megalecithal.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- magnetic head — head (def 33).
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- massachusetts — a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 8257 sq. mi. (21,385 sq. km). Capital: Boston. Abbreviation: MA (for use with zip code), Mass.
- master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
- mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
- match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
- matchlessness — The state or condition of being matchless.
- matchy-matchy — (of an outfit, décor, etc.) having colors or patterns that match or harmonize too closely: You should coordinate the drapes and bedspread without getting too matchy-matchy.
- mathematician — an expert or specialist in mathematics.
- mathematicism — the belief that everything can be explained in mathematical terms
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- mechanization — to make mechanical.
- merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- merchant navy — commercial ships
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mesaticephaly — the state or condition of being mesaticephalic or mesocephalic
- metachromasia — A characteristic change in the colour of staining carried out in biological tissues, exhibited by certain aniline dyes when they bind to particular substances present in these tissues, called chromotropes.