16-letter words containing am
- haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
- hamadryas baboon — a baboon, Papio (Comopithecus) hamadryas, of Ethiopia, the male of which has a mantle of long, dark hair about the head and shoulders: held sacred by the ancient Egyptians.
- hamiltonian path — Hamiltonian problem
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- hammer (away) at — to work continuously or energetically at
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- hammerstein (ii) — Oscar1895-1960; U.S. librettist & lyricist of musical comedies
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- hamming, richard — Richard Hamming
- hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
- hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- henley-on-thames — a city in SE Oxfordshire, in S England: annual rowing regatta.
- himalayan balsam — a tall flowering plant, Impatiens glandulifera, brought from Asia to Europe as a garden plant but now growing wild in Europe, especially on river banks. It is considered invasive and environmentally damaging.
- hispano-american — Spanish.
- hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
- hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
- ice-cream parlor — an establishment serving ice cream, sodas, etc., from a soda fountain.
- ice-cream social — a social gathering, usually to raise money for a local church or school, where ice cream is the principal refreshment.
- ice-cream supper — an ice-cream social held in the late afternoon or early evening.
- immediate family — parents, siblings, children
- impact parameter — the perpendicular distance from the original center of a set of scattering particles to the original line of motion of a particle being scattered.
- in heaven's name — You can use in heaven's name in questions beginning with 'what', 'when', 'who', 'why', 'when', and 'how' to add emphasis in a way that shows that you are very angry or surprised.
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- intertestamental — of or relating to the period between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament.
- intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
- isoamyl benzoate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 15 O 2 , having a sharp, fruitlike odor: used in cosmetics.
- james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
- john of damascus — Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.
- kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
- kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
- kilogram calorie — kilocalorie.
- king james bible — Authorized Version.
- kitagawa utamaro — Kitagawa [kee-tah-gah-wah] /ˈki tɑˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1753–1806, Japanese painter, draftsman, and designer of prints.
- lambada-calculus — (humour, logic) (A pun on "lambda-calculus") Teaching logic thru spanish dance steps. Invented by P. van der Linden <[email protected]>.
- latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- liturgical drama — medieval drama, based on incidents in the Bible and performed in churches on holy days, usually in Latin and often chanted.
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
- mainstream media — newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, as opposed to social media
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- mamihlapinatapai — A situation in which all participants want something to be done, but none want to do it.
- mammographically — Using a mammograph, by means of mammograph.
- medical examiner — a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
- melodramatically — In a melodramatic manner.
- menstrual cramps — pain in the lower abdomen as well as possibly in the lower back and legs associated with menstruation
- metamathematical — Pertaining to metamathematics, a branch of mathematics dealing with mathematical systems and their nature.
- metamorphization — Process or action of metamorphizing.
- metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
- methamphetamines — Methamphetamine.