19-letter words containing h, i, p, e, s
- hester lynch piozzi — Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
- high blood pressure — elevation of the arterial blood pressure or a condition resulting from it; hypertension. Abbreviation: HBP.
- 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.
- high-pressure steam — High-pressure steam is steam which is at or above 75 pounds per square inch gauge pressure.
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- historic episcopate — the derivation of the episcopate of a Church in historic succession from the apostles
- horseshoe whipsnake — a long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snake, Coluber hippocrepis, of Eurasia
- hospital facilities — the equipment and services provided by a hospital
- house of ill repute — a house of prostitution; whorehouse; brothel.
- housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
- 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.
- 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.
- hyperparathyroidism — overactivity of the parathyroid gland, characterized by softening of the bones, with consequent pain, tenderness, and a tendency to spontaneous fractures, and by muscular weakness and abdominal cramps.
- hyperresponsiveness — An abnormally increased responsiveness, especially that due to hypersensitivity or hyperreactivity.
- hypersuggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- hypocholesterolemic — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or having hypocholesterolemia.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- in the person of sb — You can use in the person of when mentioning the name of someone you have just referred to in a more general or indirect way.
- in the second place — secondly
- incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensiveness — The condition of being incomprehensive.
- iphigenia in tauris — a drama (413? b.c.) by Euripides.
- irish water spaniel — one of an Irish breed of large water spaniels having a thick, curly, liver-colored coat, a topknot of long, loose curls, and a thin, tapering tail covered with short hair.
- isenheim altarpiece — an altarpiece (1510?–15?) painted by Matthias Grünewald.
- joseph of arimathea — a wealthy disciple who provided a tomb for Jesus' body: Matt. 27:57-60
- keep one's shirt on — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- kick up one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- 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.
- label switched path — (networking) (LSP) The specific path through a network that a datagram follows, based on its MPLS labels.
- lakshadweep islands — a group of 26 coral islands and reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India: a union territory of India since 1956. Administrative centre: Kavaratti Island. Pop: 60 595 (2001). Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
- landscape architect — A landscape architect is the same as a landscape gardener.
- 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
- limited partnership — a partnership formed by at least one general partner and at least one special partner.
- line-of-battle ship — ship of the line.
- lipopolysaccharides — Plural form of lipopolysaccharide.
- locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
- male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
- manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew
- membership function — fuzzy subset
- meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
- metaphosphoric acid — an acid, HPO 3 , derived from phosphorous pentoxide, and containing the smallest amount of water of the phosphoric acids.
- mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
- nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
- neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
- new zealand spinach — a plant, Tetragonia tetragonioides, of warm regions, cultivated for its edible leaves, eaten as a vegetable.