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17-letter words containing a, c, n, t, h, i

  • induction heating — a method of heating a conducting material, as metal in a furnace, by using electromagnetic induction to establish a current in the material.
  • industrial school — a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade or vocational school.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • intertrochanteric — (anatomy) Between the two trochanters of the femur.
  • iontophoretically — By means of iontophoresis.
  • jack-in-the-green — (in England, formerly) a man who wore or supported a leaf-covered wooden framework while dancing in May-Day celebrations
  • junior technician — a rank in the RAF senior to aircraftman: comparable to that of private in the army
  • kick in the pants — a reprimand or scolding designed to produce greater effort, enthusiasm, etc, in the person receiving it
  • kitchen appliance — a machine intended for use in the kitchen, such as a fridge or a food processor
  • lay it on (thick) — to exaggerate
  • light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • local anaesthesia — the use of anaesthetics that affect a particular area of the body
  • local anaesthetic — sth injected to numb a body part for pain relief
  • maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
  • mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
  • mechanoelectrical — Describing the production of electricity by mechanical motion; especially in a transducer.
  • mental arithmetic — sums done in your head
  • merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
  • message switching — store and forward
  • method invocation — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, the way the program looks up the right code to run when a method with a given name is called ("invoked") on an object. The method is first looked for in the object's class, then that class's superclass and so on up the class hierarchy until a method with the given name is found (the name is "resolved"). Generally, method lookup cannot be performed at compile time because the object's class is not known until run time. This is the case for an object method whereas a class method is just an ordinary function (that is bundled with a given class) and can be resolved at compile time (or load time in the case of a dynamically loaded library).
  • methyl isocyanate — Chemistry. a highly toxic, flammable, colorless liquid, CH 3 NCO, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of pesticides: in 1984, the accidental release of a cloud of this gas in Bhopal, India, killed more than 1700 people and injured over 200,000.
  • mexican hat dance — a dance performed by couples, consisting of eight measures during which the dancers kick out each foot alternately, followed by eight more measures during which they swing around with interlocking arms.
  • microphanerophyte — any shrub or tree having a height of 2 to 8 metres
  • mischaracterizing — Present participle of mischaracterize.
  • mitochondrial dna — DNA found in mitochondria, which contains some structural genes and is generally inherited only through the female line
  • monochromatically — of or having one color.
  • monolith catalyst — A monolith catalyst is a type of catalyst whose surface is flat.
  • mont-saint-michel — a rocky islet near the coast of NW France, in an inlet of the Gulf of St. Malo: famous abbey and fortress.
  • mountain viscacha — the mountain chinchilla
  • nakhon ratchasima — a city in central Thailand.
  • nanotechnological — Of, pertaining to, or by means of nanotechnology.
  • nathaniel currier — Nathaniel, 1813–88, U.S. lithographer. Compare Ives (def 4).
  • nationalist china — China, Republic of.
  • natural harmonics — harmonics of a note produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or unstopped sounded string.
  • natural hat trick — three goals scored in succession by one player in one game or one period.
  • nautical twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 12° below the horizon
  • neo-scholasticism — a contemporary application of Scholasticism to modern problems and life.
  • nephelometrically — By means of nephelometry.
  • neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
  • neuropsychiatrist — A medical doctor specializing in neuropsychiatry; a medical doctor dealing with disorders that have both neurological and psychiatric features.
  • nikita khrushchev — Nikita S(ergeyevich) [ni-kee-tuh sur-gey-uh-vich;; Russian nyi-kyee-tuh syir-gye-yuh-vyich] /nɪˈki tə sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪˈkyi tə syɪrˈgyɛ yə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.
  • ninth commandment — “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”: ninth of the Ten Commandments.
  • nitroxanthic acid — picric acid.
  • non-thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • nonaccomplishment — Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
  • nonteaching staff — employees within an academic or vocational environment whose jobs do not involve teaching
  • north miami beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • northern michigan — the peninsula between lakes Superior and Michigan constituting the N part of Michigan. Abbreviation: U.P.
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
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