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19-letter words containing h, a, p, l, o, i

  • fluoride toothpaste — toothpaste containing a small amount of fluoride as protection against tooth decay
  • 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
  • go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
  • 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.
  • in the second place — secondly
  • international pitch — diapason normal pitch.
  • kirlian photography — a photographic process that supposedly records electrical discharges naturally emanating from living objects, producing an auralike glow surrounding the object on a photographic plate or film with which the object is in direct contact.
  • knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • late-night shopping — later opening hours of shops than usual, esp as a regular occurrence on a particular night of the week
  • league championship — the competition to become league champions
  • line-of-battle ship — ship of the line.
  • lipopolysaccharides — Plural form of lipopolysaccharide.
  • lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
  • lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
  • magnetic north pole — the point on Earth to where a compass needle points, and which is situated near the geographic North Pole. However, with time, the exact location can vary.
  • meningoencephalitic — Relating to meningoencephalitis.
  • meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
  • middle palaeolithic — the period between the Lower and the Upper Palaeolithic, usually taken as equivalent to the Mousterian
  • military pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different events, a 300-meter freestyle swim, a 4000-meter cross-country run, a 5000-meter equestrian steeplechase, épée fencing, and pistol target-shooting at 25 meters, the winner being the contestant with the highest total score.
  • molar heat capacity — the heat capacity of one mole of a substance.
  • mother-in-law plant — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
  • mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
  • multiplexor channel — (MPX) mainframe terminology for a slow peripheral device connection, e.g. for a printer, operator console, or card reader.
  • nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
  • napierian logarithm — natural logarithm.
  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
  • occupational hazard — a danger or hazard to workers that is inherent in a particular occupation: Silicosis is an occupational hazard of miners.
  • occupational health — Occupational health is the branch of medicine that deals with the health of people in their workplace or in relation to their job.
  • old english pattern — a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.
  • old spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • palaeoethnobotanist — someone who studies fossil seeds and grains to further archaeological knowledge, esp of the domestication of cereals
  • paleoanthropologist — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
  • paradichlorobenzene — a white, crystalline, volatile, water-insoluble solid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , of the benzene series, having a penetrating odor: used chiefly as a moth repellent.
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