19-letter words containing a, p, e
- hospital facilities — the equipment and services provided by a hospital
- hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.
- hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- hyperparathyroidism — overactivity of the parathyroid gland, characterized by softening of the bones, with consequent pain, tenderness, and a tendency to spontaneous fractures, and by muscular weakness and abdominal cramps.
- hyperphosphorylated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperphosphorylate.
- hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- hypolipoproteinemia — An abnormally low level of lipoprotein in the blood.
- hypomixolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from D to D, with the final on G.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- idea of pure reason — any of the three undemonstrable entities (a personal soul, a cosmos, and a supreme being) implicit in the fact of a subject and an object of knowledge, and in the need for some principle uniting them.
- immunoprecipitation — the separation of an antigen from a solution by the formation of a large complex with its specific antibody.
- imperative language — (language) Any programming language that specifies explicit manipulation of the state of the computer system, not to be confused with a procedural language, which specifies an explicit sequence of steps to perform. An example of an imperative (but non-procedural) language is a data manipulation language for a relational database management system. This specifies changes to the database but does not necessarily require anyone to specify a sequence of steps. Both contrast with declarative languages, which specify neither explicit state manipulation nor a sequence of steps.
- imperial preference — a proposed system whereby free trade and levelled tariffs would exist between nations belonging to the British Commonwealth, in order to increase the prosperity of and unity between these nation
- imperial presidency — a U.S. presidency that is characterized by greater power than the Constitution allows.
- imperial war museum — a museum in London, founded in 1920, containing material related to military operations involving British and Commonwealth forces since 1914
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- in particular terms — If you say something in particular terms, you say it using a particular type or level of language or using language which clearly shows your attitude.
- in the hope of/that — If you do one thing in the hope of another thing happening, you do it because you think it might cause or help the other thing to happen, which is what you want.
- in the second place — secondly
- incidental expenses — costs outside those budgeted
- incomplete abortion — a miscarriage in which some fetal or placental tissue remains in the uterus.
- incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
- incremental plotter — a device that plots graphs on paper from computer-generated instructions
- index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
- infantile paralysis — poliomyelitis.
- inglenook fireplace — a large fireplace with a space on either side
- inprise corporation — Borland Software Corporation.
- instantaneous speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the rate of change of position with respect to time at a particular point. It is measured in metres per second, miles per hour, etc
- intangible property — intellectual property, rights ownership
- intercardinal point — any of the four points of the compass midway between the cardinal points; northeast, southeast, southwest, or northwest.
- interdepartmentally — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
- intergalactic space — the region of physical space that exists between galaxies. The density is negligible, and close to an almost total vacuum
- international pitch — diapason normal pitch.
- interrogation point — question mark.
- iphigenia in tauris — a drama (413? b.c.) by Euripides.
- ipratropium bromide — an anticholinergic bronchodilator, C 20 H 30 BrNO 3 , used in the treatment of chronic bronchitis and in airway obstruction diseases.
- irish water spaniel — one of an Irish breed of large water spaniels having a thick, curly, liver-colored coat, a topknot of long, loose curls, and a thin, tapering tail covered with short hair.
- isenheim altarpiece — an altarpiece (1510?–15?) painted by Matthias Grünewald.
- isobutyl propionate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used chiefly as a paint, varnish, and lacquer solvent.
- iterative deepening — (algorithm) A graph search algorithm that will find the shortest path with some given property, even when the graph contains cycles. When searching for a path through a graph, starting at a given initial node, where the path (or its end node) has some desired property, a depth-first search may never find a solution if it enters a cycle in the graph. Rather than avoiding cycles (i.e. never extend a path with a node it already contains), iterative deepening explores all paths up to length (or "depth") N, starting from N=0 and increasing N until a solution is found.
- japanese arborvitae — a Japanese evergreen tree, Thuja standishii, having spreading branches with bright-green leaves.
- japanese black pine — a pine, Pinus thunbergiana, of Japan, grown as a seaside ornamental in the U.S.
- japanese lawn grass — an Asiatic creeping grass, Zoysia japonica, used especially in the southeastern U.S., having purplish spikelets and rootstalks that send up numerous tough, wiry shoots.
- joseph of arimathea — a wealthy disciple who provided a tomb for Jesus' body: Matt. 27:57-60
- judicial separation — a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.
- jumping bristletail — any of several thysanuran insects that live in dark, warm, moist places, as under leaves, bark, and dead tree trunks and along rocky seacoasts, and are active jumpers, making erratic leaps when disturbed.