15-letter words containing o, h, m, i
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
- inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
- locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
- logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
- lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
- mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
- make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
- make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- man in the moon — a fancied semblance of a human face in the disk of the full moon, so perceived because of variations in the moon's topography.
- man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- man-of-war fish — a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.
- mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- masochistically — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- mathematization — The process of mathematizing.
- mechanochemical — involving the conversion of chemical energy into mechanical energy
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- mechlorethamine — a nitrogen mustard, C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and certain other cancers.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
- melancholically — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
- mental hospital — psychiatric institution
- mephistophelean — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mephistophelian — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mesh connection — (in a polyphase system) an arrangement in which the end of each phase is connected to the beginning of the next, forming a ring, each junction being connected to a terminal
- metamorphically — In a metamorphic manner.
- metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
- metamorphosizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphosize.
- metanitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
- methyl chloride — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Cl, used chiefly as a refrigerant, as a local anesthetic, and as a methylating agent in organic synthesis.
- methylcobalamin — A cobalamin used to treat neuropathies.
- microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.