20-letter words containing om
- human genome project — a federally funded U.S. scientific project to identify both the genes and the entire sequence of DNA base pairs that make up the human genome.
- human papillomavirus — any of a group of papillomaviruses causing cutaneous warts and lesions of the oral, anal, and genital mucous membranes in human beings
- hungarian bromegrass — a pasture grass, Bromus inermis, native to Europe, having smooth blades.
- hyperhomocysteinemia — (medicine) The presence of an excessive amount of homocysteine in the blood.
- in the public domain — able to be discussed and examined freely by the general public
- in/to someone's eyes — You use expressions such as in his eyes or to her eyes to indicate that you are reporting someone's opinion and that other people might think differently.
- income tax inspector — a person whose job is to assess individuals' income tax liability
- incomplete dominance — the appearance in a heterozygote of a trait that is intermediate between either of the trait's homozygous phenotypes.
- incomprehensibleness — The state of being incomprehensible.
- incorporated company — a legally constituted company
- insulin-coma therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
- isometric projection — a type of axonometric projection in which the object is shown with its three principal axes all equally tilted from the plane of viewing, with two of them usually tilted 30 degrees upward from the horizontal
- jerk someone's chain — to tease, mislead, or harass someone
- joule-thomson effect — the change of temperature that a gas exhibits during a throttling process, shown by passing the gas through a small aperture or porous plug into a region of low pressure.
- justifiable homicide — murder committed under extenuating circumstances
- kluver-bucy syndrome — a syndrome caused by bilateral injury to the temporal lobes and characterized by memory defect, hypersexuality, excessive oral behavior, and diminished fear reactions.
- knockout competition — used to describe a competition in which competitors are eliminated progressively
- lampbrush chromosome — a chromosome with looped projections resembling a brush
- lead someone a dance — to cause someone continued worry and exasperation; play up
- let someone off with — to give (a light punishment) to someone
- lieutenant commander — a commissioned officer ranking next below a commander and next above a lieutenant.
- look homeward, angel — a novel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe.
- lymphogranulomatosis — widespread infectious granuloma of the lymphatic system.
- madwoman of chaillot — a satirical comedy (1945) by Jean Giraudoux.
- make eyes at someone — If you make eyes at someone, you look at them in a way which shows that you find them attractive and which is intended to get their attention.
- make love to someone — to have sexual intercourse with someone
- management committee — a committee of managers or senior members of an organization who are in charge of directing that organization
- mean something to sb — If a name, word, or phrase means something to you, you have heard it before and you know what it refers to.
- microminiaturization — extreme miniaturization, especially of electronic equipment, with extensive use of integrated circuits.
- molecular gastronomy — an approach to cooking in which a chef’s knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology allows him or her to experiment with unusual flavour combinations and cooking techniques
- near someone's heart — dear or important to someone
- net domestic product — the gross domestic product minus an allowance for the depreciation of capital goods
- neuromusculoskeletal — (medicine) Describing the interactions between nerves, muscles and the skeleton.
- no lack of something — If you say there is no lack of something, you are emphasizing that there is a great deal of it.
- not have the stomach — If you have no stomach for something, you do not have the courage to do it.
- objective complement — object complement.
- obsessive-compulsive — of or relating to a personality style characterized by perfectionism, indecision, conscientiousness, concern with detail, rigidity, and inhibition.
- omega-3 (fatty acid) — a type of polyunsaturated fatty acid in fish oil, shellfish, soybeans, etc., linked to low cholesterol and low LDL levels
- omega-minus particle — a baryon with strangeness −3, isotopic spin 0, and negative charge; predicted from the mathematics of the Eightfold Way and subsequently discovered. Symbol: Ω −.
- on someone's account — Your feelings on someone's account are the feelings you have about what they have experienced or might experience, especially when you imagine yourself to be in their situation.
- one's spiritual home — Your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there.
- ophthalmodynamometer — a device for determining the nearest point of ocular convergence.
- paper chromatography — the separation of mixtures into their constituents by preferential adsorption by a solid, as a column of silica (column chromatography) or a strip of filter paper (paper chromatography) or by a gel.
- parkinson's syndrome — a complex of symptoms indistinguishable from Parkinson's disease, commonly affecting boxers or sometimes occurring as a result of substance abuse or an encephalitic infection.
- pessimising compiler — /pes'*-mi:z"ing k*m-pi:l"r/ (Antonym of "optimising compiler") A compiler that produces object code that is worse than the straightforward or obvious hand translation. The implication is that the compiler is actually trying to optimise the program, but through excessive cleverness is doing the opposite. A few pessimizing compilers have been written on purpose, however, as pranks or burlesques.
- pick someone's brain — to obtain information or ideas from someone
- pickwickian syndrome — an abnormality characterized by extreme obesity accompanied by sleepiness, hypoventilation, and polycythemia.
- piezomagnetic effect — the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- poor man's something — a (cheaper) substitute for something
- potassium bichromate — an orange-red, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous powder, K 2 Cr 2 O 7 , used chiefly in dyeing, photography, and as a laboratory reagent.