12-letter words containing m, i, h, r
- inharmonical — Alternative form of inharmonic.
- inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
- inkhorn term — an obscure, affectedly or ostentatiously erudite borrowing from another language, especially Latin or Greek.
- intermeshing — That mesh between one another.
- inthrallment — Obsolete spelling of enthrallment.
- intrenchment — Archaic spelling of entrenchment.
- isochromatic — Optics. having the same color or tint.
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- john gilmore — (person) A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- katamorphism — metamorphism at or near the earth's surface: breaks down complex minerals into simpler ones.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- light bomber — a small airplane designed to carry light bomb loads relatively short distances, especially one having a gross loaded weight of less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg).
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully
- linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
- machine word — word (def 10).
- machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macrophysics — the branch of physics that deals with physical objects large enough to be observed and treated directly.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malvern hill — a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.
- mammographic — Of, or pertaining to, mammography.
- marconigraph — (dated) wireless telegraph.
- margrethe ii — born 1940, queen of Denmark since 1972.
- marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
- marsh orchid — any of various orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza, growing in damp places and having mostly purplish flowers
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
- matriarchate — a matriarchal system or community.
- matriarchial — Characteristic of or pertaining to a matriarchy. Alternative form of matriarchal.
- matriarchies — Plural form of matriarchy.
- matrix patch — A matrix patch is an adhesive patch with medicine distributed through the adhesive. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- men-children — plural of man-child.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.