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16-letter words containing m, e, i, g, h, n

  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • lightbulb moment — a moment of sudden inspiration, revelation, or recognition
  • lighting-up time — the time when vehicles are required by law to have their lights switched on
  • lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
  • machine language — machine code
  • machine learning — The ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results.
  • machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
  • magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • make the running — If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved.
  • malpighian layer — the deep, germinative layer of the epidermis.
  • man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
  • menometrorrhagia — (pathology) Excessive uterine bleeding occurring outside of the normal menstrual period.
  • metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
  • mos technologies — MOS Technology
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • munching squares — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T - see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP Machine, have been christened "munching triangles" (try AND for XOR and toggling points instead of plotting them), "munching w's", and "munching mazes". More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-changing display of some basic form, foo, on a display terminal, and does it using a relatively simple program; then the program (or the resulting display) is likely to be referred to as "munching foos". [This is a good example of the use of the word foo as a metasyntactic variable.]
  • muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • number crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
  • number-crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
  • ohm, georg simon — Georg Simon Ohm
  • overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • parliament hinge — a butt hinge the knuckle of which protrudes from the door so that the door when fully opened stands away from the wall.
  • pattern matching — 1. A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. For example, the function length [] = 0 length (x:xs) = 1 + length xs uses pattern matching in its argument to distinguish a null list from a non-null one. There are well known algorithm for translating pattern matching into conditional expressions such as "if" or "case". E.g. the above function could be transformed to 2. Descriptive of a type of language or utility such as awk or Perl which is suited to searching for strings or patterns in input data, usually using some kind of regular expression.
  • pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
  • pharmacogenomics — the study of human genetic variability in relation to drug action and its application to medical treatment
  • phenomenological — the study of phenomena.
  • pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
  • poynting theorem — the theorem that the rate of flow of electromagnetic energy through unit area is equal to the Poynting vector, i.e. the cross product of the electric and magnetic field intensities
  • pygmy chimpanzee — a small chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, primarily of swamp forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a threatened species.
  • recycling scheme — a scheme enabling the public to recycle waste
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
  • shopping complex — a shopping centre
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • spring ephemeral — any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • teaching machine — a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
  • the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
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