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15-letter words containing n, o, t, e, r, m

  • hearth and home — domestic realm
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • hepatocarcinoma — (pathology) cancer of the liver.
  • heterochromatin — the dense, highly stainable part of a chromosome.
  • heteronormative — noting or relating to behavior or attitudes consistent with traditional male or female gender roles and the assumption of heterosexuality as the norm: our heteronormative culture.
  • honeycomb tripe — a part of the inner lining of the stomach of the steer, calf, hog, or sheep, resembling a honeycomb in appearance and considered a table delicacy.
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
  • horner's method — a technique, involving successive substitutions, for approximating the real roots of an equation with real coefficients.
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hypoproteinemia — an abnormally low concentration of protein in the blood.
  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
  • impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in the majority — the largest group
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
  • information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • intercomparison — mutual comparison
  • interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
  • interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • irreconcilement — the quality or state of being unreconciled
  • isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
  • job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
  • joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
  • junior minister — politics
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
  • kernmantel rope — a rope made of many straight nylon fibres within a plaited sheath; used for its tensile strength, freedom from twisting, and elasticity
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
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