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17-letter words containing h, c, a, i, n

  • human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
  • hurricane warning — a storm warning given for winds with speeds exceeding 63 knots (72 mph, 32 m/sec) when the source of the winds is a tropical cyclone.
  • 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.
  • hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
  • hypochondriacally — In a hypochondriacal manner.
  • 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.
  • icosidodecahedron — A semiregular polyhedron with twelve faces that are regular pentagons and twenty that are equilateral triangles.
  • 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 same canoe — of the same tribe
  • indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
  • independence hall — the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
  • 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
  • julian of norwich — ?1342–?1413, English mystic and anchoress: best known for the Revelations of Divine Love describing her visions
  • 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
  • kitchen appliance — a machine intended for use in the kitchen, such as a fridge or a food processor
  • lancashire heeler — a small sturdy dog of a breed with a short thick black or liver-coloured coat with tan markings, often used for herding cattle
  • lay it on (thick) — to exaggerate
  • light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
  • lisp machine lisp — (language)   An extension of Maclisp, now called Zetalisp.
  • 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
  • lombrosian school — a school of criminology, promulgating the theories and employing the methods developed by Lombroso.
  • lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.
  • madonna and child — a representation of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus.
  • maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
  • maraschino cherry — a cherry cooked in colored syrup and flavored with maraschino, used to garnish desserts, cocktails, etc.
  • mass merchandiser — a retailer or retail store that seeks to sell large quantities of goods quickly through such means as discounting, customer self-service, or unadorned display and packaging, as in a warehouse.
  • mechanical digger — a machine used for excavation
  • mechanical pencil — a pencil for holding lead that can be extended by mechanical means.
  • mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
  • mechanoelectrical — Describing the production of electricity by mechanical motion; especially in a transducer.
  • mental arithmetic — sums done in your head
  • merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
  • message switching — store and forward
  • method invocation — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, the way the program looks up the right code to run when a method with a given name is called ("invoked") on an object. The method is first looked for in the object's class, then that class's superclass and so on up the class hierarchy until a method with the given name is found (the name is "resolved"). Generally, method lookup cannot be performed at compile time because the object's class is not known until run time. This is the case for an object method whereas a class method is just an ordinary function (that is bundled with a given class) and can be resolved at compile time (or load time in the case of a dynamically loaded library).
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