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16-letter words containing m, o, n, r, c, h

  • hispano-american — Spanish.
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • j. random hacker — (jargon)   /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
  • keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • machine operator — someone who operates mechanical equipment
  • macpherson strut — an automobile suspension-system component that consists of a strut combined with a spring and shock absorber and connects the wheel to the frame of the vehicle.
  • magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
  • mechanoreception — The action of a mechanoreceptor.
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
  • mechanoreceptors — Plural form of mechanoreceptor.
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • memoria technica — a method or device for assisting the memory
  • merchant account — A merchant account is a type of bank account that allows a company to accept credit cards.
  • microangiopathic — Of, pertaining to or accompanied by microangiopathy.
  • mineral charcoal — a fibrous substance resembling charcoal and having a high carbon content, often occurring in thin layers in bituminous coal.
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • miscomprehension — the act or process of comprehending.
  • modersohn-becker — Paula [pou-lah] /ˈpaʊ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1907, German painter.
  • monochromaticity — of or having one color.
  • monohybrid cross — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • nonharmonic tone — a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • ohmic resistance — resistance (def 3a).
  • peano arithmetic — (mathematics)   Giuseppe Peano's system for representing natural numbers inductively using only two symbols, "0" (zero) and "S" (successor). This system could be expressed as a recursive data type with the following Haskell definition: data Peano = Zero | Succ Peano The number three, usually written "SSS0", would be Succ (Succ (Succ Zero)). Addition of Peano numbers can be expressed as a simple syntactic transformation: plus Zero n = n plus (Succ m) n = Succ (plus m n) (1995-03-28)
  • perchloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
  • phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • pharmacodynamics — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the course of action, effect, and breakdown of drugs within the body.
  • pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
  • pharmacogenomics — the study of human genetic variability in relation to drug action and its application to medical treatment
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
  • rancho cucamonga — a city in SE California.
  • reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
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