13-letter words containing o, h, m
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- eventide home — a retirement home
- exanthematous — Of or pertaining to exanthem.
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
- exothermicity — (chemistry, physics) The release of heat during an exothermic reaction.
- extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
- ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- fisher of men — an evangelist
- flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- foot-in-mouth — (of a statement) inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent.
- forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
- form the fool — to play the fool or behave irritatingly
- formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- fort monmouth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E central New Jersey, SE of Red Bank; site of signal school.
- forty-eightmo — a book size of about 2½ × 4 inches (6 × 10 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 48 leaves or 96 pages. Abbreviation: 48mo, 48°.
- foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
- gallop rhythm — an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by three clear sounds in each beat, resembling the sound of a horse's gallop.
- gallows humor — humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way.
- gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
- gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
- geochemically — In a geochemical manner.
- geomorphology — the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
- get somewhere — to make progress
- gilmore, john — John Gilmore
- give mouth to — to express in speech; say
- go to the mat — a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- goldtail moth — European moth with white wings and a soft white furry body with a yellow tail tuft
- good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
- goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- grass sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as Sudan grass, grown for pasturage and hay.
- grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
- growth market — a rapidly expanding market
- gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.