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17-letter words containing a, n, i, m

  • hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
  • hollerith, herman — Herman Hollerith
  • holy roman empire — a Germanic empire located chiefly in central Europe that began with the coronation of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in a.d. 800 (or, according to some historians, with the coronation of Otto the Great, king of Germany, in a.d. 962) and ended with the renunciation of the Roman imperial title by Francis II in 1806, and was regarded theoretically as the continuation of the Western Empire and as the temporal form of a universal dominion whose spiritual head was the pope.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • homogentisic acid — an intermediate compound in the metabolism of tyrosine and of phenylalanine, found in excess in the blood and urine of persons affected with alkaptonuria.
  • homovanillic acid — the end product of dopamine metabolism, C 9 H 10 O 4 , found in human urine.
  • honorable mention — a citation conferred on a contestant, exhibit, etc., having exceptional merit though not winning a top honor or prize.
  • household ammonia — diluted ammonia, often having a small quantity of detergent, used in the home for cleaning.
  • human engineering — an applied science that coordinates the design of devices, systems, and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of the worker.
  • human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
  • hydroxytryptamine — (organic compound) Any hydroxy derivative of tryptamine, but especially 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin).
  • hyperalimentation — overfeeding.
  • hyperpigmentation — coloration, especially of the skin.
  • hypophrygian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from B to B, with the final on E.
  • i am bound to say — You can say 'I am bound to say' to introduce a statement expressing something that you find undesirable or unexpected.
  • i will/can manage — You say 'I can manage' or 'I'll manage' as a way of refusing someone's offer of help and insisting on doing something by yourself.
  • iambic pentameter — a verse line consisting of five metrical iambs
  • illegal immigrant — a person who has entered a country illegally
  • image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners
  • image intensifier — any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter
  • image recognition — (graphics, artificial intelligence)   The identification of objects in an image. This process would probably start with image processing techniques such as noise removal, followed by (low-level) feature extraction to locate lines, regions and possibly areas with certain textures. The clever bit is to interpret collections of these shapes as single objects, e.g. cars on a road, boxes on a conveyor belt or cancerous cells on a microscope slide. One reason this is an AI problem is that an object can appear very different when viewed from different angles or under different lighting. Another problem is deciding what features belong to what object and which are background or shadows etc. The human visual system performs these tasks mostly unconsciously but a computer requires skillful programming and lots of processing power to approach human performance.
  • imitation doublet — a doublet formed entirely of glass.
  • immediate annuity — an annuity bought with a single premium, with payments to the annuitant to begin at the end of one payment period, as a month or a year.
  • immediate version — child version
  • immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
  • immunodiagnostics — the determination of immunologic characteristics of individuals, cells, and other biologic entities.
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
  • impersonalization — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
  • impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
  • implosion therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
  • impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
  • impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
  • improper integral — Also called infinite integral. a definite integral in which one or both of the limits of integration is infinite.
  • improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
  • improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
  • imputation system — a former taxation system in which some, or all, of the corporation tax on a company was treated as a tax credit on account of the income tax paid by its shareholders on their dividends; discontinued from 1999
  • in (great) demand — If someone or something is in demand or in great demand, they are very popular and a lot of people want them.
  • in a/the minority — If people are in a minority or in the minority, they belong to a group of people or things that form less than half of a larger group.
  • in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
  • in someone's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • in the family way — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
  • in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • in the same canoe — of the same tribe
  • incandescent lamp — a lamp that emits light due to the glowing of a heated material, especially the common device in which a tungsten filament enclosed within an evacuated glass bulb is rendered luminous by the passage of an electric current through it.
  • income inequality — a situation in which there is great disparity in income within a society
  • incommunicability — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
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