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14-letter words containing m, u, o, n, i

  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • dumping ground — dump (def 17).
  • dumping-ground — dump (def 17).
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
  • excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
  • gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • holy communion — communion (def 1).
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
  • housing market — property trade
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
  • immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
  • immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
  • immunodominant — Of or pertaining to the epitope of a molecule that provokes the most intense immune response.
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
  • immunoglobulin — any of several classes of structurally related proteins that function as antibodies or receptors and are found in plasma and other body fluids and in the membrane of certain cells. Compare IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • immunosuppress — (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
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