19-letter words containing i, n, f, e, s

harbinger-of-spring — a North American umbelliferous herb, Erigenia bulbosa, having white flowers that bloom early in the spring.
have the makings of — show potential as
health professional — a person trained to work in any field of physical or mental health.
heat of sublimation — the heat absorbed by one gram or unit mass of a substance in the process of changing, at a constant temperature and pressure, from a solid to a gaseous state. Compare sublime (def 10).
helsinki conference — Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
house of correction — a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.
house of councilors — the upper house of the Japanese diet.
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.
idea of pure reason — any of the three undemonstrable entities (a personal soul, a cosmos, and a supreme being) implicit in the fact of a subject and an object of knowledge, and in the need for some principle uniting them.
if i'm not mistaken — You use expressions such as if I'm not mistaken and unless I'm very much mistaken as a polite way of emphasizing the statement you are making, especially when you are confident that it is correct.
in consequence (of) — as a result (of)
in consideration of — the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation: I will give your project full consideration.
in the light of sth — If something is possible in the light of particular information, it is only possible because you have this information.
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.
infantile paralysis — poliomyelitis.
informal settlement — a squatter camp
information science — the study of the nature, collection, and management of information and of its uses, especially involving computer storage and retrievals.
information service — a service which provides information
interesterification — transesterification.
interfacial tension — the surface tension at the interface of two liquids.
islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
italian east africa — a former Italian territory in E Africa, formed in 1936 by the merging of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland with newly conquered Ethiopia: taken by the British Imperial forces 1941.
jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
jockey for position — If someone is jockeying for position, they are using whatever methods they can in order to get into a better position than their rivals.
juan de fuca strait — strait between Vancouver Island and NW Wash.: c. 100 mi (161 km) long
ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
languages of choice — C and Lisp. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both. Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities. There is also a rapidly dwindling category of older hackers with Fortran, or even assembler, as their language of choice. They often prefer to be known as Real Programmers, and other hackers consider them a bit odd (see "The Story of Mel"). Assembler is generally no longer considered interesting or appropriate for anything but HLL implementation, glue, and a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs. Fortran occupies a shrinking niche in scientific programming. Most hackers tend to frown on languages like Pascal and Ada, which don't give them the near-total freedom considered necessary for hacking (see bondage-and-discipline language), and to regard everything even remotely connected with COBOL or other traditional card walloper languages as a total and unmitigated loss.
lay one's finger on — to indicate, identify, or locate accurately
library of congress — one of the major library collections in the world, located in Washington, D.C., and functioning in some ways as the national library of the U.S. although not officially designated as such: established by Congress in 1800 for service to its members, but now also serving government agencies, other libraries, and the public.
lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
limit of resolution — the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.
line-of-battle ship — ship of the line.
live one's own life — If you live your own life, you live in the way that you want to and accept responsibility for your actions and decisions, without other people's advice or interference.
look (like) oneself — to appear to be in normal health, spirits, etc.
lose in the shuffle — to leave out or disregard in the confusion of things
loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
low insertion force — (hardware) (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
luminous efficiency — the perceived brightness of light as a ratio of the total luminous flux to total radiant flux of the source; a measure of brightness obtained by dividing the source's luminous flux by the consumption of its energy.
lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew
means of production — resources: equipment, workers
membership function — fuzzy subset
menominee whitefish — round whitefish.
mid-autumn festival — a Chinese festival that is held to celebrate the end of the summer harvest, when the crops have been gathered.
ministry of defence — the government department responsible for the country's military measures or resources
missing fundamental — a tone, not present in the sound received by the ear, whose pitch is that of the difference between the two tones that are sounded
most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.

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