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16-letter words containing n, e, g, a

  • herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
  • herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
  • hesselman engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a spark for ignition.
  • high renaissance — a style of art developed in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on draftsmanship, schematized, often centralized compositions, and the illusion of sculptural volume in painting. Compare Early Renaissance, Venetian (def 2).
  • 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.
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • home heating oil — fuel oil for domestic central heating
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
  • horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • ill-gotten gains — Ill-gotten gains are things that someone has obtained in a dishonest or illegal way.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • in plain english — in clear and simple language
  • in the aggregate — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • in the long haul — in a future time
  • indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
  • indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • indian wrestling — arm wrestling
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
  • inter-packet gap — (networking)   A time delay between successive data packets mandated by the network standard for protocol reasons. In Ethernet, the medium has to be "silent" (i.e., no data transfer) for a few microseconds before a node can consider the network idle and start to transmit. This is necessary for fairness reasons. The delay time, which approximately equals the signal propagation time on the cable, allows the "silence" to reach the far end so that all nodes consider the net idle.
  • interest-bearing — paying interest
  • interest-earning — paying interest
  • interior mapping — an open map.
  • interlaced image — progressive coding
  • interpenetrating — Present participle of interpenetrate.
  • interstratifying — Present participle of interstratify.
  • into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
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