18-letter words containing h, i, r, n, g

drinking chocolate — sweetened cocoa powder
duty-free shopping — the making of duty-free purchases
earnings per share — the net income of a corporation divided by the total number of shares of its common stock outstanding at a given time. Abbreviation: EPS.
economic geography — a branch of geography that deals with the relation of physical and economic conditions to the production and utilization of raw materials and their manufacture into finished products.
eggshell porcelain — a type of very thin translucent porcelain originally made in China
eighty-twenty rule — (programming) The program-design version of the law of diminishing returns. The 80/20 rule says that roughly 80% of the problem can be solved with 20% of the effort that it would take to solve the whole problem. For example, parsing e-mail addresses in "From:" lines in e-mail messages is notoriously difficult if you follow the RFC 2822 specification. However, about 60% of actual "From:" lines are in the format "From: Their Name <[email protected]>", with a far more constrained idea of what can be in "user" or "host" than in RFC 2822. Another 25% just add double-quotes around "Their Name". Matching just those two patterns would thus cover 85% of "From:" lines, with a tiny portion of the code required to fully implement RFC2822. (Adding support for "From: [email protected]" and "From: [email protected] (Their Name) " brings coverage to almost 100%, leaving only really baroque things that RFC-2822 permits, like "From: Pete(A wonderful \) chap)
first things first — You say 'first things first' when you are talking about something that should be done or dealt with before anything else because it is the most important.
for the time being — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
free-range chicken — a chicken kept in natural nonintensive conditions
furnishing fabrics — fabrics used to make and cover furniture
general anesthesia — induced unconsciousness
genetic algorithms — genetic algorithm
get one's irish up — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland, its inhabitants, or their language.
glomerulonephritis — a kidney disease affecting the capillaries of the glomeruli, characterized by albuminuria, edema, and hypertension.
go down in history — If someone or something goes down in history, people in the future remember them because of particular actions that they have done or because of particular events that have happened.
government housing — housing owned and managed by the federal or state government, which is rented out to tenants, esp as a form of affordable housing
grasshopper engine — a steam engine having a piston attached to one end of a beam that is hinged to an upright at the other end, the connecting rod being suspended from near the center of the beam.
greenhouse warming — the increase in the mean temperature of the earth attributed to the greenhouse effect
hardy-weinberg law — a principle stating that in an infinitely large, randomly mating population in which selection, migration, and mutation do not occur, the frequencies of alleles and genotypes do not change from generation to generation.
hash house slinger — a person who serves in a cheap cafe
hearing impairment — partial deafness
heart-lung machine — a device through which blood is shunted temporarily for oxygenation during surgery, while the heart or a lung is being repaired.
heating degree-day — a degree-day below the standard temperature of 65°F or 19°C, used in estimating fuel consumption.
helicopter gunship — military attack helicopter
herring bone weave — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
herringbone stitch — a type of cross-stitch in embroidery similar to the catch stitch in sewing, consisting of an overlapped V -shaped stitch that when worked in a continuous pattern produces a twill-weave effect.
heuristics testing — failure-directed testing
high-grade mineral — a mineral fulfilling certain conditions as regards purity or other physical properties
highbush cranberry — a shrub, Viburnum trilobum, of northern North America, having broad clusters of white flowers and edible scarlet berries.
horizontal tasting — a tasting of wines from the same year but from different vineyards, producers, etc.
houghton-le-spring — a town in N England, in Sunderland unitary authority, Tyne and Wear: coal-mining. Pop: 36 746 (2001)
human rights group — a group that campaigns for human rights
hungarian notation — (language, convention) A linguistic convention requiring one or more letters to be added to the start of variable names to denote scope and/or type. Hungarian Notation is mainly confined to Microsoft Windows programming environments, such as Microsoft C, C++ and Visual Basic. It was originally devised by Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian, who was a senior programmer at Microsoft for many years. He disliked the way that names in C programs gave no clue as to the type, leading to frequent programmer errors. According to legend, fellow programmers at Microsoft, on seeing the convoluted, vowel-less variable names produced by his scheme, said, "This might as well be in Greek - or even Hungarian!". They made up the name "Hungarian notation" (possibly with "reverse Polish notation" in mind). Hungarian Notation is not really necessary when using a modern strongly-typed language as the compiler warns the programmer if a variable of one type is used as if it were another type. It is less useful in object-oriented programming languages such as C++, where many variables are going to be instances of classes and so begin with "obj". In addition, variable names are essentially only comments, and thus are just as susceptible to becoming out-of-date and incorrect as any other comment. For example, if a signed short int becomes an unsigned long int, the variable name, and every use of it, should be changed to reflect its new type. A variable's name should describe the values it holds. Type and scope are aspects of this, but Hungarian Notation overemphasises their importance by allocating so much of the start of the name to them. Furthermore, type and scope information can be found from the variable's declaration. Ironically, this is particularly easy in the development environments in which Hungarian Notation is typically used.
hypodermic syringe — a small glass piston or barrel syringe having a detachable, hollow needle for use in injecting solutions subcutaneously.
immunopharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the immune system
in (the) aggregate — If a number of different things or amounts are considered in aggregate, or in the aggregate, they are considered as a single thing or amount.
in one's own right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
in the grip of sth — If a person, group, or place is in the grip of something, they are being severely affected by it.
incidental charges — Incidental charges are costs of items and services that are not part of the main bill.
industrial hygiene — the science that assesses, controls, and prevents occupational factors or sources of stress in the workplace that may significantly affect the health and well-being of employees or of the community in general
interchangeability — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
internet of things — a network of everyday devices, appliances, and other objects equipped with computer chips and sensors that can collect and transmit data through the Internet. Abbreviation: IoT.
junior heavyweight — a boxer weighing up to 190 pounds (85.5 kg), between light heavyweight and heavyweight.
junior high school — a school attended after elementary school and usually consisting of grades seven through nine.
junior lightweight — a boxer weighing up to 130 pounds (58.5 kg), between featherweight and lightweight.
king of the forest — the oak tree.
knight of the road — a tramp
lactogenic hormone — prolactin.
laugh like a drain — to laugh loudly and coarsely
launching ceremony — a ceremony that celebrates the launch of a ship for the first time into the water

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