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15-letter words containing a, s, h

  • in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
  • in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
  • inapprehensible — That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
  • infants' school — kindergarten.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
  • interior salish — in Canada, a division of the peoples who speak Salish languages
  • interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
  • ionospherically — by the ionosphere
  • ironstone china — a tough durable earthenware
  • is that a fact? — You say is that a fact? as a response to a statement which you find surprising, interesting, or unlikely.
  • isolation booth — a soundproof booth located within a television studio, used to prevent the occupant, usually a contestant in a game show, from hearing certain parts of the show.
  • isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
  • isothiocyanates — Plural form of isothiocyanate.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
  • jayhawker state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • jewish calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by the Jews, in which time is reckoned from 3761 bc: regarded as the year of the Creation. The months, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar, have either 29 or 30 days. Originally a new month was declared when the new moon was sighted in Jerusalem, but when this became impossible, a complex formula was devised to keep Rosh Chodesh near to the new moon. In addition, to keep the harvest festivals in the right seasons, there is a Metonic cycle of 14 years, in five of which an additional month is added after Shevat. The year according to biblical reckoning begins with Nisan, and the civil year begins with Tishri; the years are numbered from Tishri
  • john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
  • johne's disease — a chronic diarrheal disease of cattle and sheep caused by infection with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, an organism related to the tubercle bacillus.
  • joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
  • kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
  • keep one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
  • kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • latter prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, comprising those books which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets and which are divided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets
  • learn the ropes — become familiar with sth
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