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19-letter words containing i, n, t, h, e

  • 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 line of duty — If you do something or if it happens to you in the line of duty, you do it or it happens as part of your regular work or as a result of it.
  • in the nick of time — a small notch, groove, chip, or the like, cut into or existing in something.
  • 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
  • in the tradition of — If you say that something or someone is in the tradition of a person or thing from the past, you mean that they have many features that remind you of that person or thing.
  • 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.
  • incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • induction hardening — a process in which the outer surface of a metal component is rapidly heated by means of induced eddy currents. After rapid cooling the resulting phase transformations produce a hard wear-resistant skin
  • industrial-strength — unusually strong, potent, or the like: heavy-duty: an industrial-strength soap.
  • indwelling catheter — a hollow tube left implanted in a body canal or organ, especially the bladder, to promote drainage.
  • inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
  • interchangeableness — Quality of being interchangeable.
  • interface architect — An interface builder for Motif distributed by Hewlett-Packard (see UIMX).
  • intermediate school — a school for pupils in grades 4 through 6.
  • internal hemorrhoid — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
  • international pitch — diapason normal pitch.
  • internet relay chat — (chat, messaging)   (IRC) /I-R-C/, occasionally /*rk/ A client-server chat system of large (often worldwide) networks. IRC is structured as networks of Internet servers, each accepting connections from client programs, one per user. The IRC community and the Usenet and MUD communities overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular folks who have discovered the wonders of computer networks. Some Usenet jargon has been adopted on IRC, as have some conventions such as emoticons. There is also a vigorous native jargon (see the entry for "chat"). The largest and first IRC network is EFNet, with a smaller breakaway network called the Undernet having existed since 1992, and dozens of other networks having appeared (and sometimes disappeared) since. See also nick, bot, op.
  • inver grove heights — a town in SE Minnesota.
  • 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.
  • islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
  • jehovah's witnesses — a Christian sect, founded in the U.S. in the late 19th century, that believes in the imminent destruction of the world's wickedness and the establishment of a theocracy under God's rule.
  • job creation scheme — a governmental scheme to increase the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc
  • junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
  • junior middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kg), between welterweight and middleweight.
  • junior welterweight — a boxer weighing up to 140 pounds (63 kg), between lightweight and welterweight.
  • 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.
  • kill sth stone-dead — If you kill something such as an idea or emotion stone-dead, you completely destroy it.
  • 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.
  • ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
  • lady of the evening — a prostitute.
  • 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
  • let it all hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • liberation theology — a 20th-century Christian theology, emphasizing the Biblical and doctrinal theme of liberation from oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or political.
  • lie down on the job — to put forth less than one's best efforts
  • lie in one's throat — to tell a foul or outrageous lie
  • lift the curtain on — to begin
  • light entertainment — entertainment that requires less mental effort to enjoy, or is considered frivolous
  • lighten sb's burden — If someone or something lightens your burden or your load, they make a bad or difficult situation better for you.
  • 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.
  • lose in the shuffle — to leave out or disregard in the confusion of things
  • lose one's shirt on — to lose all one has on (a horse, etc)
  • lucent technologies — (company, telecommunications, Unix)   The former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), split off in 1996.
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