16-letter words containing n, o, r, m, a, l
- farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
- 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.
- fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
- formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
- four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
- frontal lobotomy — Surgery. a psychosurgical procedure in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers.
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- george mcclellan — George Brinton [brin-tn] /ˈbrɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
- gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- head normal form — (theory, reduction) (HNF) A term describing a lambda expression whose top level is either a variable, a data value, a built-in function applied to too few arguments, or a lambda abstraction whose body is not reducible. I.e. the top level is neither a redex nor a lambda abstraction with a reducible body. An expression in HNF may contain redexes in argument postions whereas a normal form may not. Compare Weak Head Normal Form.
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- 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.
- hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
- 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.
- hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
- immoral earnings — money earned from work that transgresses accepted moral or legal rules
- 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.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- infant mortality — death during infancy
- interdimensional — Between dimensions.
- interior lineman — one of the players positioned on the line of scrimmage between the ends.
- internationalism — the principle of cooperation among nations, for the promotion of their common good, sometimes as contrasted with nationalism, or devotion to the interests of a particular nation.
- intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
- italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
- kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
- kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
- labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
- land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
- law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
- limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
- limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
- local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- lourenco marques — former name of Maputo.
- lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
- macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.