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15-letter words containing h, i, n, y

  • ethylenediamine — A viscous liquid used in making detergents and emulsifying agents.
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • faint-heartedly — nervously
  • faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • frederick henry — 1584–1647, prince of Orange and count of Nassau; son of William (I) the Silent
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • good king henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
  • good-king-henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
  • gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
  • green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
  • griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • hard mint candy — a hardened mint-flavoured sweet
  • hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
  • have a nice day — pleasantry
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • hazard analysis — risk assessment
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
  • hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • hexylresorcinol — white or yellowish-white, needle-shaped crystals, C 12 H 18 O 2 , used chiefly as an antiseptic and for the expulsion of intestinal worms.
  • high and mighty — self-important, arrogant
  • high technology — any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications (opposed to low technology).
  • high-and-mighty — haughty; arrogant.
  • high-dependency — needing or providing a more than usually high level of healthcare
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
  • holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
  • honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
  • honeycomb tripe — a part of the inner lining of the stomach of the steer, calf, hog, or sheep, resembling a honeycomb in appearance and considered a table delicacy.
  • honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
  • house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
  • hull efficiency — the ratio of the quantity of work required to tow a certain hull at a given speed to that required to drive it with a certain propeller: used in propeller design.
  • hyaluronic acid — a mucopolysaccharide serving as a viscous medium in the tissues of the body and as a lubricant in joints.
  • hybrid antibody — a synthetic antibody that is able to combine with two different antigens
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