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14-letter words containing m, e, i, t, h

  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
  • humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
  • humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperchromatic — Hyperchromic.
  • hypercriticism — criticism that is carping or unduly harsh.
  • hyperemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hypergeometric — of or relating to operations or series that transcend ordinary geometrical operations or series
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
  • hypernatraemia — a heightened concentration of sodium in the blood
  • hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
  • hypopotassemia — hypokalemia.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • hysterectomies — Plural form of hysterectomy.
  • hysterectomise — Alt form hysterectomize.
  • hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
  • iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • immethodically — Unmethodically.
  • impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
  • impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
  • in the extreme — to an excessive degree
  • in the interim — for the time being, in the meantime
  • in the morning — every morning
  • in the name of — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
  • internal rhyme — a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
  • isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
  • kelyphitic rim — a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock, formed by reaction of the interned mineral with the surrounding rock
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • kitchen midden — a mound consisting of shells of edible mollusks and other refuse, marking the site of a prehistoric human habitation.
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • leucocythaemia — leukaemia
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
  • machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
  • magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
  • magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
  • magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • maitre d'hotel — a headwaiter.
  • major mitchell — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, with a white-and-pink plumage
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