12-letter words containing o, h, m, g, e
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- heterogamete — either of a pair of conjugating gametes differing in form, size, structure, or sex.
- heterogamety — the condition or state of being heterogametic
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
- high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- holmes light — a canister, attached to a life buoy or float, containing calcium carbonate and calcium phosphide, which ignite spontaneously on contact with the water, emitting conspicuous fire and smoke.
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- home cooking — home-made food
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- homogenizing — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- honeymooning — (of a married couple) On a honeymoon.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- hypoglycemic — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- john gilmore — (person) A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
- light bomber — a small airplane designed to carry light bomb loads relatively short distances, especially one having a gross loaded weight of less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg).
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- memphremagog — Lake, a lake on the boundary between the U.S. and Canada, between N Vermont and S Quebec. 30 miles (48 km) long.
- merrythought — the wishbone or furcula of a fowl.
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
- metallograph — a microscope for observing the microstructure of metals.
- meteorograph — an instrument for automatically recording various meteorological conditions, as barometric pressure and temperature, at the same time.
- methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
- metrorrhagia — nonmenstrual discharge of blood from the uterus; uterine hemorrhage.
- michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- moeso-gothic — of the Moeso-Goths, their extinct East Germanic language, or their culture
- moneychanger — a person whose business is the exchange of currency, usually of different countries, at a fixed or official rate.