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15-letter words containing t, h, u, r, m

  • hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
  • hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • 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.
  • lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
  • 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
  • mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • matta echaurren — Roberto Antonio Sebastián [raw-ver-taw ahn-taw-nyaw se-vahs-tyahn] /rɔˈvɛr tɔ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ ˌsɛ vɑsˈtyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1911–2002, Chilean painter.
  • maundy thursday — the Thursday of Holy Week, commemorating Jesus' Last Supper and His washing of the disciples' feet upon that day.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
  • moment of truth — the moment in a bullfight at which the matador is about to make the kill.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
  • mother superior — the head of a Christian religious community for women.
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • mushroom growth — rapid increase or growth
  • muslim brothers — an organization founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna (1906–49), calling for a return to rigid orthodoxy, the overthrow of secular governments, and a restoration of the theocratic state.
  • naismith's rule — a rule of thumb for calculating the time needed for a climbing expedition, allowing 1 hour for every 3 miles of distance plus 1 hour for every 2000 feet of height
  • neo-lutheranism — a movement begun in the 19th century in Germany and Scandinavia to revive the orthodox principles, beliefs, and practices of the Lutheran Church.
  • neuroepithelium — Embryology. the part of the embryonic ectoderm that gives rise to the nervous system.
  • northcountryman — a native or inhabitant of the North of England
  • nyquist theorem — (communications)   A theorem stating that when an analogue waveform is digitised, only the frequencies in the waveform below half the sampling frequency will be recorded. In order to reconstruct (interpolate) a signal from a sequence of samples, sufficient samples must be recorded to capture the peaks and troughs of the original waveform. If a waveform is sampled at less than twice its frequency the reconstructed waveform will effectively contribute only noise. This phenomenon is called "aliasing" (the high frequencies are "under an alias"). This is why the best digital audio is sampled at 44,000 Hz - twice the average upper limit of human hearing. The Nyquist Theorem is not specific to digitised signals (represented by discrete amplitude levels) but applies to any sampled signal (represented by discrete time values), not just sound.
  • omnium gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
  • omnium-gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
  • open your mouth — If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all.
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • oyster mushroom — oyster cap.
  • petroleum ether — a volatile mixture of the higher alkane hydrocarbons, obtained as a fraction of petroleum and used as a solvent
  • phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • photomultiplier — an extremely sensitive detector of light and of other radiation, consisting of a tube in which the electrons released by radiation striking a photocathode are accelerated, greatly amplifying the signal obtainable from small quantities of radiation.
  • pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
  • protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
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