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15-letter words containing t, s, h, o, m

  • hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
  • 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.
  • hyperpotassemia — hyperkalemia.
  • hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
  • hypocortisolism — (medicine) A cortisol deficiency.
  • hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
  • hypovitaminosis — Insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body.
  • hystricomorphic — relating to a suborder of rodents
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in the midst of — amid, among
  • inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
  • isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
  • 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 thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • john chrysostomSaint John, a.d. 347?–407, ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
  • kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
  • 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.
  • lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
  • locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • 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.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • mental hospital — psychiatric institution
  • mephistophelean — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mephistophelian — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mesh connection — (in a polyphase system) an arrangement in which the end of each phase is connected to the beginning of the next, forming a ring, each junction being connected to a terminal
  • metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
  • metamorphosizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphosize.
  • methylcellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
  • military school — military academy.
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
  • more's the pity — If you add more's the pity to a comment, you are expressing your disappointment or regret about something.
  • moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
  • morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mother superior — the head of a Christian religious community for women.
  • mother's helper — a person who is hired to assist in household chores, especially caring for children.
  • motoring school — an organization that provides driving lessons
  • 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
  • multihomed host — A host which has more than one connection to a network. The host may send and receive data over any of the links but will not route traffic for other nodes.
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