19-letter words containing a, p, l, i
- facultative apomict — a plant that can reproduce sexually or asexually.
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- family-sized packet — a large packet
- female impersonator — a male performer who dresses as and impersonates women.
- first person plural — a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself together with others
- flat-joint pointing — pointing having flush joints of common mortar.
- floating-point unit — (hardware) (FPU) A floating-point accelerator, usually in a single integrated circuit, possible on the same IC as the central processing unit.
- flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
- fluophosphoric acid — fluorophosphoric acid.
- fluoride toothpaste — toothpaste containing a small amount of fluoride as protection against tooth decay
- fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
- free alongside ship — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
- from pillar to post — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- gallipoli peninsula — peninsula in S European Turkey, forming the NW shore of the Dardanelles: c. 55 mi (89 km) long
- general partnership — a partnership in which each of the partners is fully liable for the firm's debts.
- general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
- geocentric parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
- go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
- gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
- ground-plane aerial — a quarter-wave vertical dipole aerial in which the electrical image forming the other quarter-wave section is formed by reflection in a system of radially disposed metal rods or in a conductive sheet
- gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
- hamiltonian problem — (computability) (Or "Hamilton's problem") A problem in graph theory posed by William Hamilton: given a graph, is there a path through the graph which visits each vertex precisely once (a "Hamiltonian path")? Is there a Hamiltonian path which ends up where it started (a "Hamiltonian cycle" or "Hamiltonian tour")? Hamilton's problem is NP-complete. It has numerous applications, sometimes completely unexpected, in computing.
- hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
- have a problem with — to be unable to understand or do
- health professional — a person trained to work in any field of physical or mental health.
- hepatic portal vein — a vein connecting two capillary networks in the liver
- heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
- hexafluoroplatinate — (chemistry) The univalent anion PtF6- prepared by reacting platinum hexafluoride with certain metals or other elements.
- histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
- historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
- hospital facilities — the equipment and services provided by a hospital
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.