19-letter words containing i, n, t, h
- horizontal drilling — Horizontal drilling is drilling in which the direction of the wellbore is more than 80 degrees from the vertical.
- horizontal encoding — (processor) An instruction set where each field (a bit or group of bits) in an instruction word controls some functional unit or gate directly, as opposed to vertical encoding where instruction fields are decoded (by hard-wired logic or microcode) to produce the control signals. Horizontal encoding allows all possible combinations of control signals (and therefore operations) to be expressed as instructions whereas vertical encoding uses a shorter instruction word but can only encode those combinations of operations built into the decoding logic. An instruction set may use a mixture of horizontal and vertical encoding within each instruction. Because an architecture using horizontal encoding typically requires more instruction word bits it is sometimes known as a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture.
- horizontal mobility — movement from one position to another within the same social level, as changing jobs without altering occupational status, or moving between social groups having the same social status.
- hotel accommodation — the facilities and the quality of accommodation provided by a hotel
- hotel des invalides — a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.
- house of correction — a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.
- 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.
- hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.
- hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
- hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- hyperbolic function — a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine: often expressed as combinations of exponential functions.
- 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.
- hypolipoproteinemia — An abnormally low level of lipoprotein in the blood.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
- immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
- in association with — jointly with
- in conjunction with — together with, in association with
- in one's right mind — sane
- in the catbird seat — If you say that someone is in the catbird seat, you think that their situation is very good.
- 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 hope of/that — If you do one thing in the hope of another thing happening, you do it because you think it might cause or help the other thing to happen, which is what you want.
- 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.
- information highway — information superhighway
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- instant photography — photography using an instant camera.
- 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.