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15-letter words containing o, s, m, u

  • homogeneousness — (rare) homogeneity, the state of having a uniform composition.
  • homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
  • honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
  • 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.
  • housemistresses — Plural form of housemistress.
  • hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • human resources — (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
  • hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
  • hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
  • ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
  • ignominiousness — The state or quality of being ignominious.
  • image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
  • immune response — any of the body's immunologic reactions to an antigen.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
  • immunodiffusion — any of various analytical techniques that involve antigen and antibody solutions diffusing toward each other in a gel until antibody binds specifically to antigen to form a precipitate.
  • immunoglobulins — Plural form of immunoglobulin.
  • immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
  • immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
  • immunostimulant — (immunology, pharmacology) Any substance that stimulates an immune response.
  • impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
  • importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
  • in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • isoimmunization — the development of isoantibodies within an individual in order to protect against antigens derived from a different member of the same species
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • 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
  • jerusalem cross — a cross whose four arms are each capped with a crossbar and often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • junior minister — politics
  • jus postliminii — postliminy.
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • little missouri — a river in the NW United States, rising in NE Wyoming and flowing NE into the Missouri through N Dakota. 560 miles (900 km) long.
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