16-letter words containing m, u, r, e
- haymarket square — a square in Chicago: scene of a riot (Haymarket Riot) in 1886 between police and labor unionists.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
- heteromultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- 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.
- hyperaccumulator — a plant that absorbs toxins, such as heavy metals, to a greater concentration than that in the soil in which it is growing
- 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.
- hyperpituitarism — overactivity of the pituitary gland.
- 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.
- ice-cream supper — an ice-cream social held in the late afternoon or early evening.
- imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
- imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- 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
- immunocompromise — (medicine) The state of having a compromised immune system.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- immunosuppressed — the inhibition of the normal immune response because of disease, the administration of drugs, or surgery.
- immunosuppressor — (pharmacology) An immunosuppressive agent.
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- impact structure — a large geologic formation, as a crater, created by a comet's or meteor's collision with a planet.
- imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
- imperturbability — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- in large measure — If something is true in some measure or in large measure, it is partly or mostly true.
- in your own time — If you do something in your own time, you do it at the speed that you choose, rather than allowing anyone to hurry you.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
- inmos transputer — transputer
- instrument panel — Also called instrument board. a panel on which are mounted an array of dials, lights, and gauges that monitor the performance of a machine or device, as an airplane.
- instrumentalists — Plural form of instrumentalist.
- insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
- intercommunicate — to communicate mutually, as people.
- interculturalism — The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society.
- interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
- intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.