19-letter words containing i, n, s, g
- harbinger-of-spring — a North American umbelliferous herb, Erigenia bulbosa, having white flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
- have designs on sth — If someone has designs on something, they want it and are planning to get it, often in a dishonest way.
- have sth against sb — If you have something against someone or something, you dislike them.
- have the makings of — show potential as
- high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
- 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.
- highland clearances — in Scotland, the removal, often by force, of the people from some parts of the Highlands to make way for sheep, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
- housing association — A housing association is an organization which owns houses and helps its members to rent or buy them more cheaply than on the open market.
- 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.
- human rights abuses — acts that contravene human rights
- human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- in descending order — starting with the biggest, most important, highest etc and continuing in decreasing order to end with the smallest, least important, lowest, etc
- in one's right mind — sane
- in the driving seat — If you say that someone is in the driving seat, you mean that they are in control in a situation.
- 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 this day and age — these days
- in this/that regard — You can use in this regard or in that regard to refer back to something that you have just said.
- in-service training — training that is given to employees during the course of employment
- index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
- indian paint fungus — a common woody hoof-shaped fungus, Echinodontium tinctorium, found on conifers in western North America and believed to have been used as a dye by Pacific Northwest Indians.
- indirect addressing — indirect address
- industrial-strength — unusually strong, potent, or the like: heavy-duty: an industrial-strength soap.
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- instant photography — photography using an instant camera.
- insulating material — anything that is used as insulation
- integration testing — (testing) A type of testing in which software and/or hardware components are combined and tested to confirm that they interact according to their requirements. Integration testing can continue progressively until the entire system has been integrated.
- interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
- intergalactic space — the region of physical space that exists between galaxies. The density is negligible, and close to an almost total vacuum
- interlaced scanning — a system of scanning a television picture, first along the even-numbered lines, then along the odd-numbered lines, in one complete scan
- intersecting arcade — interlacing arcade.
- inver grove heights — a town in SE Minnesota.
- iphigenia in tauris — a drama (413? b.c.) by Euripides.
- islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
- 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.
- james' dsssl engine — (text, tool) (JADE) A DSSSL tool by James J. Clark. Jade is an implementation of the DSSSL style language for Unix and Microsoft Windows. It can turn the SGML source of the DSSSL standard into an RTF file of about 200 pages using a fairly complex DSSSL specification.
- jumping bristletail — any of several thysanuran insects that live in dark, warm, moist places, as under leaves, bark, and dead tree trunks and along rocky seacoasts, and are active jumpers, making erratic leaps when disturbed.
- jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
- king charles's head — a fixed idea; personal obsession
- king william island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, in the W Nunavut Territory, Canada. 5062 sq. mi. (13,111 sq. km).
- king's remembrancer — (in Great Britain) a judiciary official who collects debts owed to the king.
- 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.
- knights of columbus — an international fraternal and benevolent organization of Roman Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882.
- ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
- landscape gardening — the art or trade of designing or rearranging large gardens, estates, etc.