17-letter words containing c, h, i, t, n
- get in on the act — If you get in on the act, you take part in or take advantage of something that was started by someone else.
- glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
- haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
- hairline fracture — a very fine crack in a bone
- hamiltonian cycle — Hamiltonian problem
- handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
- hanging committee — a group of people that selects and hangs works of art to exhibit
- harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- have a thick skin — to be insensitive (or acutely sensitive) to blame, criticism, insults, etc.
- helicopter parent — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- hemoconcentration — an increase in the concentration of cellular elements in the blood, resulting from loss of plasma.
- heptanedioic acid — pimelic acid.
- high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
- histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
- ho chi minh trail — a network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.
- holistic medicine — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- 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.
- homolytic fission — the dissociation of a molecule into two neutral fragments
- horatio kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
- hornblende schist — a variety of schist containing needles of hornblende that lie in parallel planes.
- housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
- human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
- hyaline cartilage — the typical, translucent form of cartilage, containing little fibrous tissue.
- hydrogasification — a high-temperature, high-pressure process for producing liquid or gaseous fuels from fine particles of coal and hydrogen gas
- 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.
- hyperconnectivity — Hyperconnectivity is the use of many systems and devices so that you are always connected to social networks and other sources of information.
- hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- ichthyosarcotoxin — a term applied to any poison found in the flesh of poisonous fishes.
- icing on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
- icositetrahedrons — Plural form of icositetrahedron.
- ignoratio elenchi — the fallacy of offering proof irrelevant to the proposition in question.
- 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
- immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
- in the background — behind the focus of attention
- in the process of — If you are in the process of doing something, you have started to do it and are still doing it.
- in the public eye — featured prominently in the media
- in the same canoe — of the same tribe
- in there pitching — taking part with enthusiasm
- indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
- indirect lighting — reflected or diffused light, used especially in interiors to avoid glare or shadows.
- induction heating — a method of heating a conducting material, as metal in a furnace, by using electromagnetic induction to establish a current in the material.
- industrial school — a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade or vocational school.
- integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
- intertrochanteric — (anatomy) Between the two trochanters of the femur.
- iontophoretically — By means of iontophoresis.
- jack-in-the-green — (in England, formerly) a man who wore or supported a leaf-covered wooden framework while dancing in May-Day celebrations
- junior technician — a rank in the RAF senior to aircraftman: comparable to that of private in the army
- kick in the pants — a reprimand or scolding designed to produce greater effort, enthusiasm, etc, in the person receiving it