16-letter words containing m, t, h

mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
mount erymanthus — a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft)
mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
muddy the waters — If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
multi-way branch — switch statement
muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
name of the game — the essential element, consideration, or ultimate purpose; key: Profit is the name of the game in business.
neuroepithelioma — Neurocytoma.
new commonwealth — a term used esp in the latter part of the 20th century in Britain to describe countries in the British Commonwealth that became independent after World War II
non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
non-monotheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to monotheism, the doctrine that there is only one God: a monotheistic religion.
nonharmonic tone — a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone.
north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
north vietnamese — relating to North Vietnam or its people
northamptonshire — a county in central England. 914 sq. mi. (2365 sq. km).
northwesternmost — Farthest northwest.
not worth a damn — worthless
ohmic resistance — resistance (def 3a).
on the beam-ends — tipping so far to the side as to be in danger of capsizing
on the same page — one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
one and the same — When two or more people or things are thought to be separate and you say that they are one and the same, you mean that they are in fact one single person or thing.
ophthalmological — Pertaining to ophthalmology.
ophthalmologists — Plural form of ophthalmologist.
ophthalmoparesis — (medicine) A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
orthodox judaism — Judaism as observed by Orthodox Jews.
orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
out of the money — If an investment is out of the money, it would be a loss if it was sold.
over the transom — by unsolicited submission, as to a publisher
over-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
oxycalcium light — calcium light.
palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
palmerston north — a city in New Zealand, in the S North Island on the Manawatu River. Pop: 78 100 (2004 est)
panama hat plant — jipijapa (sense 1)
panama-hat plant — jipijapa (def 1).
parliament hinge — a butt hinge the knuckle of which protrudes from the door so that the door when fully opened stands away from the wall.
pascal's theorem — the theorem that the lines joining adjacent vertices of a hexagon intersect the same straight line if alternate vertices lie on two intersecting straight lines.
pattern matching — 1. A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. For example, the function length [] = 0 length (x:xs) = 1 + length xs uses pattern matching in its argument to distinguish a null list from a non-null one. There are well known algorithm for translating pattern matching into conditional expressions such as "if" or "case". E.g. the above function could be transformed to 2. Descriptive of a type of language or utility such as awk or Perl which is suited to searching for strings or patterns in input data, usually using some kind of regular expression.
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)
pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
perchloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
peter the hermit — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
phalansterianism — a system by which society would be reorganized into units comprising their own social and industrial elements; Fourierism.
phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
phenylethylamine — an amine that occurs naturally as a neurotransmitter in the brain, has properties similar to those of amphetamine, is an antidepressant, and is found in chocolate. Formula: C8H11N

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