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15-letter words containing t, h, a, m

  • keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • 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.
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
  • law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
  • lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
  • lithium battery — A lithium battery is a type of battery used for low-power, high-reliability, long-life applications, such as clocks, cameras and calculators.
  • lithium citrate — a white crystalline solid sometimes used in the treatment of manic-depressive illness and mania. Formula: Li3C6H5O7
  • lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
  • logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • lutzow-holm bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
  • mad as a hatter — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
  • mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
  • maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
  • make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
  • make a hit with — to make a favourable impression on
  • 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.
  • make the effort — try
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
  • 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 the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
  • manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
  • manhattan beach — a city in SW California, SW of Los Angeles.
  • manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
  • manx shearwater — a European oceanic bird, Puffinus puffinus, with long slender wings and black-and-white plumage: family Procellariidae (shearwaters)
  • marathon runner — person who runs in a marathon race
  • mare erythraeum — (Red Sea) an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • marital therapy — a psychotherapeutic treatment for married couples, who are seen by a therapist both individually and jointly to assist them in resolving various problems related to their marriage.
  • market research — investigation into consumers' needs
  • market-research — to conduct market research on.
  • mashed potatoes — potatoes that have been boiled and then crushed into a soft pulpy mass
  • masochistically — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
  • master mechanic — a mechanic, especially one who is thoroughly skilled, in charge of other mechanics.
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