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15-letter words containing i, n, h, g, e

  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • legion of honor — a French order of distinction instituted in 1802 by Napoleon with membership being granted for meritorious civil or military services.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • light-sensitive — (of a surface) having a photoelectric property, such as the ability to generate a current, change its electrical resistance, etc, when exposed to light
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
  • machine gunning — the act of using a machine gun
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • mailing machine — a machine that prepares mail for sending, as by addressing, stamping, weighing, etc.
  • make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
  • make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
  • microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
  • might-have-been — that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
  • milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
  • milling machine — a machine tool for rotating a cutter (milling cutter) to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
  • monthly meeting — (often initial capital letters) a district unit of local congregations of the Society of Friends.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • negative charge — a charge that has more electrons than protons and has a lower electrical potential
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • new high german — the High German language since c1500.
  • next to nothing — very little
  • niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
  • night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • northern lights — aurora borealis.
  • not give a hoot — not care
  • not give a shit — to not care at all
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