14-letter words containing m, e, n, s
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
- harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
- heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- henry bessemer — Sir Henry, 1813–98, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process.
- hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
- heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
- hexosaminidase — the enzymes that catalyse the metabolism of gangliosides
- highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- home and hosed — definitely safe or successful
- home economics — the art and science of home management.
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- home ownership — the situation of owning one's house or flat, or of having a mortgage on it
- home schooling — Home schooling is the practice of educating your child at home rather than in a school.
- homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
- honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
- honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
- household name — a person or thing that is very well known
- housing market — property trade
- housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
- 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
- humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
- humoursomeness — the quality of being humoursome
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hypermodernism — a hypermodern approach or theory
- hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
- hypernephromas — Plural form of hypernephroma.
- hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- immaculateness — The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
- immaterialness — The state of being immaterial; immateriality.
- immersion foot — an abnormal condition of the foot caused by prolonged exposure to water, characterized by pathological changes in the skin, blood vessels, nerves, and muscles.
- immiserisation — the process of immiserising
- immiserization — the process of immiserizing
- immoderateness — The quality of being immoderate, lack of moderation or temperance.
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
- immunosuppress — (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
- impassableness — The quality of being impassable.
- impassionately — filled with passion; impassioned.
- imperativeness — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
- impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.