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16-letter words containing h, e, n, i

  • in the throes of — If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it.
  • in the worst way — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
  • incentive scheme — an arrangement under which additional payments are made to employees as a means of increasing production
  • incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
  • indian meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Plodia interpunctella, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals.
  • inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • infernal machine — a concealed or disguised explosive device intended to destroy life or property.
  • inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
  • inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
  • insurance scheme — a scheme that provides insurance
  • intake of breath — When someone takes an intake of breath, they breathe in quickly and noisily, usually because they are shocked at something.
  • interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
  • interhemispheric — of, relating to, or between hemispheres, as of the earth: interhemispheric cooperation.
  • into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • intrapreneurship — The practice of applying entrepreneurial skills and approaches within an established company.
  • invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
  • italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
  • john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
  • john wheelwright — John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
  • johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
  • juvenile hormone — any of a class of insect and plant hormones acting to inhibit the molting of a juvenile insect into its adult form.
  • kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
  • kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
  • karelian isthmus — a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
  • kick one's heels — If you are kicking your heels, you are having to wait around with nothing to do, so that you get bored or impatient.
  • king of the hill — a game in which each player attempts to climb to the top of some point, as a mound of earth, and to prevent all others from pushing or pulling him or her off the top.
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • knitting machine — machine that knits yarn into fabric
  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • lancashire chair — a chair similar to a Windsor chair, having a rush seat and a back formed of spindles.
  • larger than life — If you say that someone or something is larger than life, you mean that they appear or behave in a way that seems more exaggerated or important than usual.
  • larger-than-life — exceedingly imposing, impressive, or memorable, especially in appearance or forcefulness: a larger-than-life leader.
  • larsen ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the NW Weddell Sea, on the E coast of the Antarctic Peninsula: first explored 1893.
  • lateral thinking — unconventional or creative problem-solving
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • leap in the dark — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • left parenthesis — (character)   "(". ASCII character 40. Common names: left paren; left parenthesis; left; open; paren (")" = thesis); open paren; open parenthesis; left parenthesis; left banana. Rare: so (")" = already); lparen; ITU-T: opening parenthesis; open round bracket, left round bracket, INTERCAL: wax (")" = wane); parenthisey (")" = unparenthisey); left ear. Paired with right parenthesis (")").
  • legion of honour — an order for civil or military merit instituted by Napoleon in France in 1802
  • lesser sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 2).
  • lethal injection — dose of deadly chemical into a vein
  • lewis and harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
  • lick one's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
  • life-threatening — endangering life: a life-threatening illness.
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