17-letter words containing m, a, t, c, h
- committal hearing — (in British law) a preliminary inquiry by a magistrate to decide if there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial
- computer graphics — the use of a computer to produce and manipulate pictorial images on a video screen, as in animation techniques or the production of audiovisual aids
- consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
- corner the market — dominate trade
- crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
- cream of the crop — the best of a group
- despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
- diaphragmatically — By use of the diaphragm; in a diaphragmatic way.
- dictating machine — a device that records spoken words, as on audiocassettes, for playing back later to prepare a transcript
- displacement hull — a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way.
- douglas macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
- dutch elm disease — a disease of elms characterized by wilting, yellowing, and falling of the leaves and caused by a fungus, Ceratostomella ulmi, transmitted by bark beetles.
- electrochemically — In an electrochemical manner.
- electromechanical — Of, relating to, or denoting a mechanical device that is electrically operated.
- electromyographic — Using electromyography.
- 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.
- female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- 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.
- gas chromatograph — a chromatograph used for the separation of volatile substances.
- 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.
- gethsemane cheese — a semisoft, mild, yellow cheese from whole milk, made by Trappist monks.
- glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
- good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
- grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
- haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
- haemorrhoidectomy — surgical removal of haemorrhoids
- hamiltonian cycle — Hamiltonian problem
- hanging committee — a group of people that selects and hangs works of art to exhibit
- harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- hemoconcentration — an increase in the concentration of cellular elements in the blood, resulting from loss of plasma.
- heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
- higher arithmetic — arithmetic (def 2).
- histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
- historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
- 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.
- homeland security — national defence
- homeopathic magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
- 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.
- human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
- hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners
- immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
- in the same canoe — of the same tribe
- law of trichotomy — the property that for natural numbers a and b , either a is less than b , a equals b , or a is greater than b .
- light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
- lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.