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15-letter words containing m, i, h, r

  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • photomicrograph — a photograph taken through a microscope.
  • photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
  • photomultiplier — an extremely sensitive detector of light and of other radiation, consisting of a tube in which the electrons released by radiation striking a photocathode are accelerated, greatly amplifying the signal obtainable from small quantities of radiation.
  • phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
  • primary teacher — a teacher in a primary school
  • prince charming — (sometimes lowercase) a man who embodies a woman's romantic ideal.
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
  • psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • radiochemically — by radiochemical means or methods; from a radiochemical perspective
  • ramrod straight — having a very straight figure
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • reaping machine — any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.
  • retirement home — care facility for elderly people
  • rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • richard hamming — (person)   Professor Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-02-11 - 1998-01-07). An American mathematician known for his work in information theory (notably error detection and correction), having invented the concepts of Hamming code, Hamming distance, and Hamming window. Richard Hamming received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1937, his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1939, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1942. In 1945 Hamming joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. In 1946, after World War II, Hamming joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories where he worked with both Shannon and John Tukey. He worked there until 1976 when he accepted a chair of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. Hamming's fundamental paper on error-detecting and error-correcting codes ("Hamming codes") appeared in 1950. His work on the IBM 650 leading to the development in 1956 of the L2 programming language. This never displaced the workhorse language L1 devised by Michael V Wolontis. By 1958 the 650 had been elbowed aside by the 704. Although best known for error-correcting codes, Hamming was primarily a numerical analyst, working on integrating differential equations and the Hamming spectral window used for smoothing data before Fourier analysis. He wrote textbooks, propounded aphorisms ("the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers"), and was a founder of the ACM and a proponent of open-shop computing ("better to solve the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way."). In 1968 he was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and awarded the Turing Prize from the Association for Computing Machinery. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Hamming the Emanuel R Piore Award in 1979 and a medal in 1988.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
  • run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
  • saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
  • schmitt trigger — a bistable circuit that gives a constant output when the input voltage is above a specified value
  • schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
  • servo-mechanism — A servo-mechanism is a system or device that provides increased power to operate a control.
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • shalmaneser iii — died 824? b.c, Assyrian ruler 859–824?.
  • sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
  • sharm al-sheikh — a village and military post in E Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula, guarding the Gulf of Suez.
  • sharm el-sheikh — a city in Egypt on the southern point of the Sinai Peninsula on the Red Sea; a major holiday resort. Pop: 73 000 (2015 est)
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