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

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
homogenized milk — milk in which the fat globules are evenly distributed
honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
houphouet-boigny — Félix [French fey-leeks] /French feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1905–1993, Ivory Coast political leader: president 1960–93.
household knight — bachelor (def 5).
household-knight — an unmarried man.
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.
huygens eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses, the plane sides of which both face the eye.
hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
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.
hyperintelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
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.
imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
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 living memory — If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember.
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 limelight — prominent, featured in the news
in the long haul — in a future time
in the long term — You use the expressions in the long term, in the short term, and in the medium term to talk about what will happen over a long period of time, over a short period of time, and over a medium period of time.
in the region of — You say in the region of to indicate that an amount that you are stating is approximate.
in the slightest — at all
in the spotlight — prominently featured
in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
in working order — fully functioning
incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.

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