16-letter words containing a, c, s, e, o
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- huevos rancheros — a Latin American dish of eggs, usually fried or poached, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and sometimes served on a fried corn tortilla with the addition of vegetables and cheese.
- hurricane season — annual cyclone period
- hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
- ice-cream social — a social gathering, usually to raise money for a local church or school, where ice cream is the principal refreshment.
- icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- image processing — (graphics) Computer manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include convolution (on which many others are based), FFT, DCT, thinning (or skeletonisation), edge detection and contrast enhancement. These are usually implemented in software but may also use special purpose hardware for speed. Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and visualisation, which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in image recognition and computer vision. See also Pilot European Image Processing Archive.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- in loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
- in plain clothes — not wearing a uniform
- inauspiciousness — The state, quality, or condition of being inauspicious or unpropitious; unfavorableness.
- income statement — an accounting of income and expenses that indicates a firm's net profit or loss over a certain period of time, usually one year.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- inconsequentials — Plural form of inconsequential.
- inconsolableness — The quality of being inconsolable.
- incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- insulin reaction — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- insurance broker — person who sells insurance policies
- insurance policy — contract that insures sth
- intensifications — Plural form of intensification.
- inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
- interconsonantal — immediately following a consonant and preceding a consonant, as the a in pat.
- interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
- intraocular lens — a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- it's no accident — You begin a sentence with 'it's no accident' if you want to suggest that something was done deliberately or has a logical explanation, although it might give the impression of having happened by chance.
- jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
- jacques cousteau — Jacques Yves [zhahk eev] /ʒɑk iv/ (Show IPA), 1910–97, French naval officer, author, and underseas explorer: developed the Aqua-Lung.
- judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- kangaroo closure — a form of closure in which the chair or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others
- keep one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
- knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
- know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- lattice constant — a parameter, either a measure of length or angle, that defines the size and shape of the unit cell of a crystal lattice.
- lawson criterion — (in a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor) the requirement that in order for the energy produced by fusion to exceed the energy expended in causing the fusion, the product of the density of the fuel and the time during which it is confined at that density (Lawson product) must be greater than a certain number that depends on the kind of fuel used.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- learning process — a process of learning
- leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
- lexicostatistics — the statistical study of the vocabulary of a language or languages for historical purposes.
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- lost-wax process — a process of investment casting in which a refractory mold is built up around a pattern of wax and then baked so as to melt and drain off the wax.
- louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.