16-letter words containing m, u, n
- gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
- gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
- government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
- government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
- gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
- haussmannization — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- home-equity loan — a loan that uses equity in the borrower's home as collateral.
- honeymoon couple — a newly-married couple who are on their honeymoon
- house of commons — the elective, lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, and various other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.
- housemaid's knee — inflammation of the bursa over the front of the kneecap.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
- hunt the thimble — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden thimble
- husayn ali mirza — 1817–92, Persian religious leader: founder of Bahāʾī.
- hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
- hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
- hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
- hyperinsulinemia — (medicine) The condition of having an excessively high level of insulin in the blood, usually due to excess production.
- hyperinsulinemic — Suffering from or characterized by hyperinsulinemia, an excessively high level of insulin in the blood.
- hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- if you must know — You say 'if you must know' when you tell someone something that you did not want them to know and you want to suggest that you think they were wrong to ask you about it.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
- immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
- immelmann (turn) — a maneuver in which an airplane is half looped to an upside-down position and then half rolled back to normal, upright flight: used to gain altitude while reversing direction
- immersion course — an educational course that teaches a foreign language, and in which the lessons are entirely conducted in the foreign language
- immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
- immunocompetence — having the potential for immunologic response; capable of developing immunity after exposure to antigen.
- immunocompromise — (medicine) The state of having a compromised immune system.
- immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- immunomodulation — Any of several adjustments in the level of an immune response.
- immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.