16-letter words containing n, a, g, m
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- hamming, richard — Richard Hamming
- hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
- hard rock mining — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- hearing-impaired — having reduced or deficient hearing ability; hard-of-hearing: special programs for hearing-impaired persons.
- hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- hesselman engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a spark for ignition.
- high-maintenance — needing frequent maintenance or repair: My bike is high-maintenance; this is its third front wheel this month.
- high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
- home heating oil — fuel oil for domestic central heating
- horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
- hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
- hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
- illegitimateness — Quality of being illegitimate.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- image processing — (graphics) Computer manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include convolution (on which many others are based), FFT, DCT, thinning (or skeletonisation), edge detection and contrast enhancement. These are usually implemented in software but may also use special purpose hardware for speed. Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and visualisation, which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in image recognition and computer vision. See also Pilot European Image Processing Archive.
- imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
- immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
- immoral earnings — money earned from work that transgresses accepted moral or legal rules
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- in general terms — generally, approximately
- in large measure — If something is true in some measure or in large measure, it is partly or mostly true.
- indiscriminating — not discriminating.
- interior mapping — an open map.
- interlaced image — progressive coding
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
- kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
- kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
- king james bible — Authorized Version.
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
- knitting machine — machine that knits yarn into fabric
- labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
- landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
- latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- legal department — the department that deals with legal matters
- local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
- long-tail claims — Long-tail claims are claims that are made or settled a long time after the insurance policy has expired.
- lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.