18-letter words containing l, e, g, h
- i'll give you that — You say I'll give you that to indicate that you admit that someone has a particular characteristic or ability.
- idylls of the king — a series of poems by Tennyson, based on Arthurian legend.
- incidental charges — Incidental charges are costs of items and services that are not part of the main bill.
- industrial hygiene — the science that assesses, controls, and prevents occupational factors or sources of stress in the workplace that may significantly affect the health and well-being of employees or of the community in general
- interchangeability — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- iphigenia in aulis — a tragedy (408? b.c.) by Euripides.
- james-lange theory — a theory that emotions are caused by bodily sensations; for example, we are sad because we weep
- junior lightweight — a boxer weighing up to 130 pounds (58.5 kg), between featherweight and lightweight.
- king of the castle — most powerful figure
- king-of-the-salmon — a ribbonfish, Trachypterus altivelis, of northern parts of the Pacific Ocean.
- lactogenic hormone — prolactin.
- lagrange's theorem — the theorem that the order of each subgroup of a finite group is a factor of the order of the group.
- laugh like a drain — to laugh loudly and coarsely
- launching ceremony — a ceremony that celebrates the launch of a ship for the first time into the water
- legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
- light displacement — the weight of a ship with all its permanent equipment, excluding the weight of cargo, persons, ballast, dunnage, and fuel, but usually including the weight of permanent ballast and water used to operate steam machinery.
- light middleweight — an amateur boxer weighing 67–71 kg (148–157 pounds)
- light welterweight — an amateur boxer weighing 60–63.5 kg (132–140 pounds)
- lighting cameraman — the person who designs and supervises the lighting of scenes to be filmed
- lightning arrester — a device for preventing damage to radio, telephonic, or other electric equipment from lightning or other high-voltage currents, using spark gaps to carry the current to the ground without passing through the device.
- limburger (cheese) — a semisoft cheese of whole milk, with a strong odor and flavor, made originally in Limburg, Belgium
- logical shift left — logical shift
- long hundredweight — a hundredweight of 112 pounds (50.8 kg), the usual hundredweight in Great Britain, but now rare in the U.S.
- long-horned beetle — any of numerous, often brightly colored beetles of the family Cerambycidae, usually with long antennae, the larva of which bores into the wood of living or decaying trees.
- long-hours culture — The long-hours culture is the way in which some workers feel that they are expected to work much longer hours than they are paid to do.
- lubber grasshopper — plains grasshopper.
- magnetorheological — (physics) describing a substance whose rheological properties are modified by a magnetic field.
- malpighian tubules — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- marine archaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the recovery of ancient objects found beneath the sea, as shipwrecks or remains from submerged islands, and with the techniques of underwater exploration, excavation, and retrieval.
- materials handling — the loading, unloading, and movement of goods, as within a factory or warehouse, especially by the aid of mechanical devices.
- mathematical logic — symbolic logic.
- mechanical drawing — drawing, as of machinery, done with the aid of rulers, scales, compasses, etc.
- mechanical testing — Mechanical testing is the testing of a material to find out its mechanical properties, for example its yield strength or hardness.
- menthol cigarettes — cigarettes that are flavoured with menthol
- mergui archipelago — a group of over 200 islands in the Andaman Sea, off the Tenasserim coast of S Myanmar: mountainous and forested
- middle high german — the High German language of the period 1100–1500. Abbreviation: MHG.
- middleburg heights — a town in N Ohio.
- moccasin telegraph — the transmission of rumour or secret information; the grapevine
- moulding technique — the technique used to shape a material into a frame or mould
- move the goalposts — to change the aims of an activity to ensure the desired results
- negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
- negligent homicide — a criminal charge brought against people who, through criminal negligence, allow others to die
- netherlands guiana — a former name of Suriname.
- neuroophthalmology — the branch of ophthalmology that deals with the optic nerve and other nervous system structures involved in vision.
- neurophysiological — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- neuropsychological — Of or pertaining to neuropsychology, the relation or combination of brain and mind.
- neutrosophic logic — (logic) (Or "Smarandache logic") A generalisation of fuzzy logic based on Neutrosophy. A proposition is t true, i indeterminate, and f false, where t, i, and f are real values from the ranges T, I, F, with no restriction on T, I, F, or the sum n=t+i+f. Neutrosophic logic thus generalises: - intuitionistic logic, which supports incomplete theories (for 0
- no laughing matter — sth serious
- noninterchangeable — That cannot be interchanged with another.
- north attleborough — a city in SE Massachusetts.