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19-letter words containing c, h, i, y

  • electrophoretically — By means of electrophoresis.
  • electrophysiologist — A physiologist whose speciality is electrophysiology.
  • enabling technology — technology that enables the user to perform a task or to improve his or her overall performance: e.g. the internet
  • exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
  • feynman, richard p. — Richard P. Feynman
  • forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
  • freedom of the city — nominal citizenship in a city, conferred as an honor upon important visitors.
  • frontier technology — innovative or new technology
  • hairy cell leukemia — a form of cancer in which abnormal cells with many hairlike cytoplasmic projections appear in the bone marrow, liver, spleen, and blood.
  • hatfield-mccoy feud — a blood feud between two mountain clans on the West Virginia–Kentucky border, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, that grew out of their being on opposite sides during the Civil War and was especially violent during 1880–90.
  • heavy goods vehicle — a large road vehicle for carrying goods
  • heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
  • hermetically sealed — airtight
  • hester lynch piozziHester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
  • high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
  • high-energy physics — the branch of particle physics that deals with the collisions of particles accelerated to such high energies that new elementary particles are created by the collisions.
  • histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
  • historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
  • holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • hydrochlorothiazide — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 7 H 8 ClN 3 O 4 S 2 , used as a diuretic and in the treatment of hypertension.
  • hydroelectric power — electricity generated by water
  • hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
  • hydroxybenzoic acid — Hydroxybenzoic acid is the active ingredient in a number of drugs, for example, aspirin. Hydroxybenzoic acid is also used as a preservative.
  • hydroxybutyric acid — ketone body.
  • hydroxydaunorubicin — Doxorubicin.
  • hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
  • hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
  • hyperbolic function — a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine: often expressed as combinations of exponential functions.
  • hyperbolic geometry — the branch of non-Euclidean geometry that replaces the parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry with the postulate that two distinct lines may be drawn parallel to a given line through a point not on the given line.
  • hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
  • hyperfine structure — the splitting of the lines of an atomic spectrum, produced by the angular momentum of the nucleus of the atom.
  • 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.
  • hypocholesterolemic — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or having hypocholesterolemia.
  • hypophosphoric acid — a tetrabasic acid, H 4 P 2 O 6 , produced by the slow oxidation of phosphorous in moist air.
  • immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
  • incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
  • internet relay chat — (chat, messaging)   (IRC) /I-R-C/, occasionally /*rk/ A client-server chat system of large (often worldwide) networks. IRC is structured as networks of Internet servers, each accepting connections from client programs, one per user. The IRC community and the Usenet and MUD communities overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular folks who have discovered the wonders of computer networks. Some Usenet jargon has been adopted on IRC, as have some conventions such as emoticons. There is also a vigorous native jargon (see the entry for "chat"). The largest and first IRC network is EFNet, with a smaller breakaway network called the Undernet having existed since 1992, and dozens of other networks having appeared (and sometimes disappeared) since. See also nick, bot, op.
  • jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
  • lipopolysaccharides — Plural form of lipopolysaccharide.
  • magnetic hysteresis — hysteresis in a ferromagnetic material; the lag in the response of magnetic induction to changes of magnetic intensity.
  • magnetohydrodynamic — Of or pertaining to magnetohydrodynamics.
  • molar heat capacity — the heat capacity of one mole of a substance.
  • mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
  • naberezhniye chelny — city in E European Russia, on the Kama River: pop. 514,000
  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
  • neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
  • nonthrombocytopenic — Not thrombocytopenic.
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