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20-letter words containing m, i, s, t, h, n

  • human interest story — news item about people's lives
  • human-interest story — a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, designed to engage attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
  • hyperadrenocorticism — Cushing's syndrome.
  • hyperhomocysteinemia — (medicine) The presence of an excessive amount of homocysteine in the blood.
  • immunohistochemistry — the application of immunologic techniques to the chemical analysis of cells and tissues.
  • in the circumstances — a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner,agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a modifying or influencing factor: Do not judge his behavior without considering every circumstance.
  • insulin-coma therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
  • internal hemorrhoids — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
  • kingston upon thames — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • last of the mohicans — a historical novel (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • let someone off with — to give (a light punishment) to someone
  • life-support machine — A life-support machine is the equipment that is used to keep a person alive when they are very ill and cannot breathe without help.
  • lump in one's throat — the passage from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs, including the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, and trachea.
  • lymphogranulomatosis — widespread infectious granuloma of the lymphatic system.
  • magnetohydrodynamics — the branch of physics that deals with the motion of electrically conductive fluids, especially plasmas, in magnetic fields. Abbreviation: MHD.
  • matched-pairs design — (of an experiment) concerned with measuring the values of the dependent variables for pairs of subjects that have been matched to eliminate individual differences and that are respectively subjected to the control and the experimental condition
  • mean something to sb — If a name, word, or phrase means something to you, you have heard it before and you know what it refers to.
  • membranous labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
  • mischaracterizations — Plural form of mischaracterization.
  • multistep hydroplane — a motorship having a flat bottom built as a series of planes inclined forward, the ship planing on each from stem to stern as its speed increases.
  • no lack of something — If you say there is no lack of something, you are emphasizing that there is a great deal of it.
  • one's misspent youth — the period when one is young and spend's one's time doing foolish, bad, or frivolous things
  • one's spiritual home — Your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there.
  • physical examination — an examination, usually by a physician, of a person's body in order to determine his or her state of health or physical fitness, as for military service or participation in a sport.
  • poor man's something — a (cheaper) substitute for something
  • psychological moment — the proper or critical time for achieving a desired result: She found the right psychological moment to make her request.
  • psychometric testing — the use of psychometric tests, often as a selection method
  • quaker meeting house — a place where Quakers gather for worship
  • rocky mountain sheep — bighorn.
  • saint john ambulance — an organization that provides first aid and first-aid training
  • saint thomas aquinas — Saint, Aquinas, Saint Thomas.
  • scottish nationalism — a political ideology advocating the independence of Scotland
  • shear transformation — a map of a coordinate space in which one coordinate is held fixed and the other coordinate or coordinates are shifted.
  • skating championship — a competition for ice-skating
  • snow-on-the-mountain — a North American euphorbiaceous plant, Euphorbia marginata, having white-edged leaves and showy white bracts surrounding small flowers
  • south american plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the continent of South America and several ocean basins and bounded on the north by the Caribbean Plate, on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the west by a submarine trench that borders the western coast of the continent, and on the south by the Antarctic Plate.
  • splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
  • stallman, richard m. — Richard Stallman
  • take something amiss — to be annoyed or offended by something
  • the garment industry — the manufacturing of items of clothing
  • the gnomes of zurich — Swiss bankers and financiers
  • the price of someone — what someone deserves, esp a fitting punishment
  • there's no mistaking — You can say there is no mistaking something when you are emphasizing that you cannot fail to recognize or understand it.
  • thermodynamic system — a system whose states of equilibrium can be specified by a few macroscopic properties.
  • thioantimonious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3SbS3, HSbS2, and H4Sb2S5, known only in the forms of their salts in solution
  • three-dimensionality — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.
  • to give someone hell — If you say that someone gives you hell, you are emphasizing that they shout at you very angrily because of something you have done wrong.
  • toxic shock syndrome — a rapidly developing, sometimes fatal infection characterized by sudden onset of fever, gastrointestinal upsets, a sunburnlike rash, and a drop in blood pressure: caused by a Staphylococcus aureus toxin and occurring especially in menstruating women using high-absorbency tampons. Abbreviation: TSS.
  • twiddle one's thumbs — to turn about or play with lightly or idly, especially with the fingers; twirl.
  • under the impression — If you are under the impression that something is the case, you believe that it is the case, usually when it is not actually the case.
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