14-letter words containing n, e, i, g
- homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
- homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hyperenergetic — extremely or excessively energetic
- hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.
- hyperhygienist — Being too hygienic.
- hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
- hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
- hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
- hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
- iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
- illegalization — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- illegitimation — (obsolete) The act of making illegitimate; bastardization.
- illegitimizing — illegitimatize.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- imposing stone — a slab, formerly of stone but now usually of metal, on which pages of type or plates are imposed and on which type correcting in the page is done.
- impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- in a good seam — doing well, esp financially
- in a pig's eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- in good season — early enough
- in high places — People in high places are people who have powerful and influential positions in a government, society, or organization.
- in league with — along with, plotting with
- in one's glory — at one's best, happiest, etc.
- in single file — one behind another
- in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- in the morning — every morning
- in the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
- in this regard — on this point
- incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
- index register — (processor) A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
- indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
- indigenisation — Alternative spelling of indigenization.