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16-letter words containing m, a, y, h

  • hemolytic anemia — an anemic condition characterized by the destruction of red blood cells: seen in some drug reactions and in certain infectious and hereditary disorders.
  • henley-on-thames — a city in SE Oxfordshire, in S England: annual rowing regatta.
  • high memory area — (storage)   (HMA) The first 64 kilobytes (minus 16 byte) of the extended memory on an IBM PC. By a strange design glitch the Intel 80x86 processors can actually address 17*64 kbyte minus 16 byte of memory (from 0000:0000 to ffff:ffff) in real mode. In the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 processors, unable to handle more than 1 megabyte of memory, addressing wrapped around, that is, address ffff:0010 was equivalent to 0000:0000. For compatibility reasons, later processors still wrapped around by default, but this feature could be switched off. Special programs called A20 handlers can control the addressing mode dynamically, thereby allowing programs to load themselves into the 1024--1088 kbyte region and run in real mode. From version 5.0 parts of MS-DOS can be loaded into HMA as well freeing up to 46 kbytes of conventional memory.
  • himalayan balsam — a tall flowering plant, Impatiens glandulifera, brought from Asia to Europe as a garden plant but now growing wild in Europe, especially on river banks. It is considered invasive and environmentally damaging.
  • hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
  • home-equity loan — a loan that uses equity in the borrower's home as collateral.
  • humanly possible — feasible, practical
  • husayn ali mirza — 1817–92, Persian religious leader: founder of Bahāʾī.
  • hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
  • hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
  • hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
  • hydrobromic acid — a colorless or faintly yellow corrosive liquid, HBr, an aqueous solution of hydrogen bromide.
  • hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
  • hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
  • hygrothermograph — an instrument for recording temperature and relative humidity.
  • hyper-patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
  • hyperaccumulator — a plant that absorbs toxins, such as heavy metals, to a greater concentration than that in the soil in which it is growing
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hyperinsulinemia — (medicine) The condition of having an excessively high level of insulin in the blood, usually due to excess production.
  • hyperlipoidaemia — Alt form hyperlipoidemia.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperpituitarism — overactivity of the pituitary gland.
  • hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
  • hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
  • hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
  • hypoalimentation — insufficient or inadequate nourishment.
  • hypophosphatemia — (medicine) An electrolyte disturbance in which there is an abnormally low level of phosphate in the blood, most commonly seen when malnourished patients are given large amounts of carbohydrates, creating a high phosphorus demand in the cells of the body.
  • immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
  • immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
  • jerusalem cherry — an Old World plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, of the nightshade family, having white flowers and bearing cherrylike scarlet or yellow fruits, cultivated as an ornamental.
  • lachryma christi — a table wine produced from grapes grown near Vesuvius, in Italy.
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
  • lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
  • lymphatic system — an extensive network of capillary vessels that transports the interstitial fluid of the body as lymph to the venous blood circulation
  • lymphatic tissue — tissue, such as the lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen, and thymus, that produces lymphocytes
  • macrophotography — Photography that is done up close; close-up photography.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • make a photocopy — If you make a photocopy of a document, you make a copy of it using a photocopier.
  • make the fur fly — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
  • malchus-porphyry — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
  • maleic anhydride — a colorless crystalline, unsaturated compound, C 4 H 2 O 3 , that is soluble in acetone and hydrolyzes in water: used in the production of polyester resins, pesticides, and fumaric and tartaric acids.
  • maleic hydrazide — a crystalline compound, C 4 N 2 H 4 O 2 , used as a plant growth inhibitor and weed-killer.
  • malpighian layer — the deep, germinative layer of the epidermis.
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