19-letter words containing l, y, i, n
- flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
- fly in the ointment — Also called true fly. any of numerous two-winged insects of the order Diptera, especially of the family Muscidae, as the common housefly.
- for crying out loud — exasperation
- four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
- fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
- free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
- frontier technology — innovative or new technology
- functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
- functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
- generic array logic — (hardware, integrated circuit) (GAL) A newer kind of Programmable Array Logic based on EEPROM storage cells, been pioneered by Lattice. GALs can be erased and reprogrammed and usually replace a whole set of different PALs (hence the name).
- glyceryl trinitrate — nitroglycerin.
- godfrey of bouillon — (Duke of Lower Lorraine) 1060?–1100, French leader of the First Crusade 1096–99.
- greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
- heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
- hester lynch piozzi — Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
- high-flying tippler — a variety of domestic pigeon bred mainly for flying
- holiday entitlement — the number of days of paid holiday in a year that a worker is entitled to take
- holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- hypomixolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from D to D, with the final on G.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- imperial presidency — a U.S. presidency that is characterized by greater power than the Constitution allows.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- 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.
- incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incontrovertibility — The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
- individualistically — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
- infantile paralysis — poliomyelitis.
- inferiority complex — Psychiatry. intense feeling of inferiority, producing a personality characterized either by extreme reticence or, as a result of overcompensation, by extreme aggressiveness.
- inflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- intangible property — intellectual property, rights ownership
- intelligence agency — a government department charged with obtaining intelligence, or information, especially for use by the armed forces.
- intentional fallacy — (in literary criticism) an assertion that the intended meaning of the author is not the only or most important meaning; a fallacy involving an assessment of a literary work based on the author's intended meaning rather than on actual response to the work.
- interdepartmentally — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
- interferometrically — By means of interferometry.
- 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.
- 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.
- isobutyl propionate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used chiefly as a paint, varnish, and lacquer solvent.
- jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
- kirlian photography — a photographic process that supposedly records electrical discharges naturally emanating from living objects, producing an auralike glow surrounding the object on a photographic plate or film with which the object is in direct contact.
- knickerbocker glory — a rich confection consisting of layers of ice cream, jelly, cream, and fruit served in a tall glass