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16-letter words containing n, o, m, i, a, t

  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
  • exponential-time — (complexity)   The set or property of problems which can be solved by an exponential-time algorithm but for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known.
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
  • falsificationism — (epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
  • farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
  • finite automaton — Finite State Machine
  • fisherman's knot — a knot for joining two ropes of equal thickness consisting of an overhand knot or double overhand knot by each rope round the other, so that the two knots jam when pulled tight
  • flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
  • flight formation — an arrangement of two or more airplanes flying together in a group, usually in a predetermined pattern.
  • for a/one minute — If you say that you do not believe for a minute or for one minute that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it is true.
  • for the meantime — For the meantime means for a period of time from now until something else happens.
  • formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
  • formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
  • fortin barometer — an adjustable cistern barometer, the most common of those employing mercury.
  • gamma correction — (hardware)   Adjustments applied during the display of a digital representation of colour on a screen in order to compensate for the fact that the Cathode Ray Tubes used in computer monitors (and televisions) produce a light intensity which is not proportional to the input voltage. The light intensity is actually proportional to the input voltage raised to the inverse power of some constant, called gamma. Its value varies from one display to another, but is usually around 2.5. Because it is more intuitive for the colour components (red, green and blue) to be varied linearly in the computer, the actual voltages sent to the monitor by the display hardware must be adjusted in order to make the colour component intensity on the screen proportional to the value stored in the computer's display memory. This process is most easily achieved by a dedicated module in the display hardware which simply scales the outputs of the display memory before sending them to the digital-to-analogue converters. More expensive graphics cards and workstations (particularly those used for CAD applications) will have a gamma correction facility. In combination with the "white-point" gamma correction is used to achieve precise colour matching.
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • go out on a limb — say sth daring
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • hamiltonian path — Hamiltonian problem
  • hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • 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.
  • have no time for — not tolerate
  • hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
  • hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • hemolytic anemia — an anemic condition characterized by the destruction of red blood cells: seen in some drug reactions and in certain infectious and hereditary disorders.
  • herman hollerith — (person)   The promulgator of the punched card. Hollerith was born on 1860-02-29 and died on 1929-11-17. He graduated from Columbia University, NewYork, NY, USA. He joined the US Census Bureau as a statistician where he used a punched card device to help analyse the 1880 US census data. This punched card system stored data in 80 columns. This "80-column" concept has carried forward in various forms into modern applications. In 1896, Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to exploit his invention and in 1924 his firm became part of IBM. The Hollerith system was used for the 1911 UK census. A correspondant writes: Wasn't Hollerith's original machine first used for the 1990 US census? And I think I am right in saying that the physical layout was a 20x12 grid of round holes. The one I have seen (picture only, unfortunately, not the real thing) did not use 'columns' as such but holes were grouped into irregularly-shaped fields, such that each hole had a more-or-less independent function.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • home heating oil — fuel oil for domestic central heating
  • home-equity loan — a loan that uses equity in the borrower's home as collateral.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
  • hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • hypoalimentation — insufficient or inadequate nourishment.
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • immersion heater — a small electric coil used to heat a liquid, as a cup of water, in which it is immersed.
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
  • immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
  • 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.
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