15-letter words containing s, i, m, o, l, e
- hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
- hemicolectomies — Plural form of hemicolectomy.
- hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- histochemically — In a histochemical manner.
- homeostatically — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
- implementations — Plural form of implementation.
- implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
- impossibilities — Plural form of impossibility.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- isoamyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used in flavorings, perfumery, and as a solvent. Compare banana oil (def 1).
- isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
- isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- l'istesso tempo — (of a musical passage or section following a change in time signature) at the same tempo as before.
- lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
- lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
- leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
- 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.
- loan investment — a loan made as an investment
- locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- lower criticism — a form of Biblical criticism having as its purpose the reconstruction of the original texts of the books of the Bible.
- luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
- 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.
- lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- male prostitute — man who has sex for money
- malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
- 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.