19-letter words containing i, s, o, l, n
- giant silkworm moth — any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae.
- giovanni da fiesole — Giovanni da [Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), Angelico, Fra.
- glorious revolution — the events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
- go round in circles — to engage in energetic but fruitless activity
- grand duke nicholas — of Cusa [kyoo-zuh] /ˈkyu zə/ (Show IPA), 1401–1464, German cardinal, mathematician, and philosopher. German Nikolaus von Cusa.
- greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
- gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
- hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
- haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
- 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.
- hester lynch piozzi — Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
- holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
- 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 councilors — the upper house of the Japanese diet.
- household insurance — an arrangement in which you pay money to a company, and they pay money to you if your household goods are stolen or damaged
- 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.
- hudson river school — a group of American painters of the mid-19th century whose works are characterized by a highly romantic treatment of landscape, especially along the Hudson River.
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- 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
- 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.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- in (all) conscience — in fairness; on any reasonable ground
- 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 second place — secondly
- incommensurableness — (rare) Incommensurability.
- incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- inconsequentialness — The quality or state of being inconsequential.
- inelastic collision — a collision in which the total kinetic energy of the colliding bodies or particles is not the same after the collision as it was before (opposed to elastic collision).
- inflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- informal settlement — a squatter camp
- insect pest control — the killing, reduction or elimination of insects which are pests, using insecticide, etc
- instrumentalisation — (philosophy) The treatment of an idea as an instrument that functions as a guide to action.
- instrumentalization — Alternative spelling of instrumentalisation.
- inter-institutional — of, relating to, or established by institution.
- interfacial tension — the surface tension at the interface of two liquids.
- intermediate school — a school for pupils in grades 4 through 6.
- internal conversion — the emission of an electron by an atom with an excited nucleus, occurring as a result of the transfer of energy from the nucleus to the electron.
- internal translator — (language, mathematics) (IT) An early compiler for mathematics developed by A.J. Perlis et al at Carnegie Tech ca 1957. IT was originally written for the Burroughs 205, then the IBM 650. IT was the forerunner of RUNCIBLE, GATE, CORRELATE and GAT. IT source code was converted to PIT, thence to SPIT. IT-2 produced machine language directly, IT-3 developed at Carnegie added double-precision floating-point.
- internal-combustion — of or relating to an internal-combustion engine.
- international style — the general form of architecture developed in the 1920s and 1930s by Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and others, characterized by simple geometric forms, large untextured, often white, surfaces, large areas of glass, and general use of steel or reinforced concrete construction.
- interval estimation — the process of estimating a parameter of a given population by specifying an interval of values and the probability that the true value of the parameter falls within this interval.
- islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
- isobutyl propionate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used chiefly as a paint, varnish, and lacquer solvent.