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16-letter words containing rm

  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • gentleman-farmer — a man whose wealth or income from other sources permits him to farm for pleasure rather than for basic income.
  • geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
  • german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • head normal form — (theory, reduction)   (HNF) A term describing a lambda expression whose top level is either a variable, a data value, a built-in function applied to too few arguments, or a lambda abstraction whose body is not reducible. I.e. the top level is neither a redex nor a lambda abstraction with a reducible body. An expression in HNF may contain redexes in argument postions whereas a normal form may not. Compare Weak Head Normal Form.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • herman hollerith — (person)   The promulgator of the punched card. Hollerith was born on 1860-02-29 and died on 1929-11-17. He graduated from Columbia University, NewYork, NY, USA. He joined the US Census Bureau as a statistician where he used a punched card device to help analyse the 1880 US census data. This punched card system stored data in 80 columns. This "80-column" concept has carried forward in various forms into modern applications. In 1896, Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to exploit his invention and in 1924 his firm became part of IBM. The Hollerith system was used for the 1911 UK census. A correspondant writes: Wasn't Hollerith's original machine first used for the 1990 US census? And I think I am right in saying that the physical layout was a 20x12 grid of round holes. The one I have seen (picture only, unfortunately, not the real thing) did not use 'columns' as such but holes were grouped into irregularly-shaped fields, such that each hole had a more-or-less independent function.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • hermitian matrix — Mathematics. a matrix, whose entries are complex numbers, equal to the transpose of the matrix whose entries are the conjugates of the entries of the given matrix.
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • hookworm disease — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
  • hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
  • hygrothermograph — an instrument for recording temperature and relative humidity.
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperthermophile — (biology) An organism that lives and thrives in an extremely hot environment, such as a deep sea smoker vent; often a member of the Archaea.
  • impermissibility — The state or condition of being impermissible.
  • in general terms — generally, approximately
  • in the long term — You use the expressions in the long term, in the short term, and in the medium term to talk about what will happen over a long period of time, over a short period of time, and over a medium period of time.
  • information desk — helpdesk, information point
  • information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
  • informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
  • inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
  • intermediateness — The condition of being intermediate.
  • interminableness — The state or condition of being interminable.
  • interministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
  • intermissionless — (US) Without an intermission; without a pause between acts in the performance of a play or in a film on television.
  • intradermal test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
  • irminger current — a branch of the North Atlantic Current, flowing N past the W coast of Iceland and then W.
  • italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
  • juvenile hormone — any of a class of insect and plant hormones acting to inhibit the molting of a juvenile insect into its adult form.
  • kekule's formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
  • land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
  • lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
  • learner's permit — A learner's permit is a license that allows you to drive a vehicle before you have passed your driving test.
  • leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
  • long-term memory — information stored in the brain and retrievable over a long period of time, often over the entire life span of the individual (contrasted with short-term memory).
  • man and superman — a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.
  • marmalade orange — a bitter variety of orange suitable for making marmalade
  • maximilian armor — full plate armor of the early 16th century, representing a combination of Italian and German styles and characterized by extensive use of fluting for lightness and strength.
  • moral rearmament — a worldwide movement initiated by Frank Buchman in 1938 as a successor to the Oxford Group, and maintaining that the practice of high morality in public and private life is the key to world betterment. Abbreviation: MRA.
  • mount carmel man — an early human of Neanderthaloid type, known from skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene Epoch, c50,000–40,000 b.c., found in Palestine.
  • multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
  • non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
  • non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
  • nondeterministic — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
  • nonharmonic tone — a tone sounding with a chord of which it is not a chord tone.
  • one-armed bandit — slot machine (def 1).
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