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17-letter words containing a, t, h, l, e, i

  • how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
  • hyaline cartilage — the typical, translucent form of cartilage, containing little fibrous tissue.
  • hydroelectrically — Using hydroelectric power.
  • hyper-peristalsis — the progressive wave of contraction and relaxation of a tubular muscular system, especially the alimentary canal, by which the contents are forced through the system.
  • hyperalimentation — overfeeding.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hyperchlorination — Chemistry. to combine or treat with chlorine. to introduce chlorine atoms into an organic compound by an addition or substitution reaction.
  • hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperinflationary — (economics) Having very high levels of inflation.
  • hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
  • hyperirritability — extreme irritability.
  • hyperpolarisation — Alternative spelling of hyperpolarization.
  • hyperpolarization — The act or process of hyperpolarizing.
  • hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • ignoratio elenchi — the fallacy of offering proof irrelevant to the proposition in question.
  • 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.
  • implosive-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.
  • in the altogether — wholly; entirely; completely; quite: altogether fitting.
  • 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.
  • inalienable right — right that cannot be taken away
  • indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • interdental brush — a small brush that is used to clean between the teeth
  • interrelationship — reciprocal relation.
  • interrupt handler — (software)   A routine which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock. Special care is required when writing an interrupt handler to ensure that either the interrupt which triggered the handler's execution is masked out (inhibitted) until the handler exits, or the handler is re-entrant so that multiple concurrent invocations will not interfere with each other. If interrupts are masked then the handler must execute as quickly as possible so that important events are not missed. This is often arranged by splitting the processing associated with the event into "upper" and "lower" halves. The lower part is the interrupt handler which masks out further interrupts as required, checks that the appropriate event has occurred (this may be necessary if several events share the same interrupt), services the interrupt, e.g. by reading a character from a UART and writing it to a queue, and re-enabling interrupts. The upper half executes as part of a user process. It waits until the interrupt handler has run. Normally the operating system is responsible for reactivating a process which is waiting for some low-level event. It detects this by a shared flag or by inspecting a shared queue or by some other synchronisation mechanism. It is important that the upper and lower halves do not interfere if an interrupt occurs during the execution of upper half code. This is usually ensured by disabling interrupts during critical sections of code such as removing a character from a queue.
  • iontophoretically — By means of iontophoresis.
  • island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • ivan the terrible — ("Ivan the Terrible") 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.
  • karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
  • kitchen appliance — a machine intended for use in the kitchen, such as a fridge or a food processor
  • l'hospital's rule — the theorem that for the quotient of two functions satisfying certain conditions on a given closed interval, each having infinite limit or zero as limit at a given point, the limit of the quotient at the given point is equal to the limit of the quotient of the derivatives of each function.
  • lady of the night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • lady-of-the-night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • langerhans islets — islets of Langerhans
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • lanthanide series — the series of rare-earth elements of atomic numbers 57 through 71 (lanthanum through lutetium).
  • lewis with harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
  • life and/or death — If you say that something is a matter of life and death, you are emphasizing that it is extremely important, often because someone may die or suffer great harm if people do not act immediately.
  • life of the party — most lively, outgoing person
  • light heavyweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a middleweight and a heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kg).
  • light in the head — dizzy; giddy
  • light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
  • light mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • local anaesthesia — the use of anaesthetics that affect a particular area of the body
  • local anaesthetic — sth injected to numb a body part for pain relief
  • lower paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
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