19-letter words containing n, o, a, i
- 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.
- horseshoe whipsnake — a long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snake, Coluber hippocrepis, of Eurasia
- hotel accommodation — the facilities and the quality of accommodation provided by a hotel
- hotel des invalides — a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.
- household insurance — an arrangement in which you pay money to a company, and they pay money to you if your household goods are stolen or damaged
- housing association — A housing association is an organization which owns houses and helps its members to rent or buy them more cheaply than on the open market.
- human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
- hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.
- 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
- hydroxybenzoic acid — Hydroxybenzoic acid is the active ingredient in a number of drugs, for example, aspirin. Hydroxybenzoic acid is also used as a preservative.
- hydroxydaunorubicin — Doxorubicin.
- hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- 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.
- idea of pure reason — any of the three undemonstrable entities (a personal soul, a cosmos, and a supreme being) implicit in the fact of a subject and an object of knowledge, and in the need for some principle uniting them.
- identification card — a card giving identifying data about a person, as full name, address, age, and color of hair and eyes, and often containing a photograph: for use as identification at a place of employment, school, club, etc.
- identification mark — barcode or serial number
- if i'm not mistaken — You use expressions such as if I'm not mistaken and unless I'm very much mistaken as a polite way of emphasizing the statement you are making, especially when you are confident that it is correct.
- immigration control — a method or methods for regulating border laws and immigration
- immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
- immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
- immunoprecipitation — the separation of an antigen from a solution by the formation of a large complex with its specific antibody.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- in (all) conscience — in fairness; on any reasonable ground
- in association with — jointly with
- in commemoration of — in remembrance of
- in consideration of — the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation: I will give your project full consideration.
- in the hope of/that — If you do one thing in the hope of another thing happening, you do it because you think it might cause or help the other thing to happen, which is what you want.
- in the second place — secondly
- in the tradition of — If you say that something or someone is in the tradition of a person or thing from the past, you mean that they have many features that remind you of that person or thing.
- incommensurableness — (rare) Incommensurability.
- incomplete abortion — a miscarriage in which some fetal or placental tissue remains in the uterus.
- incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
- inconsequentialness — The quality or state of being inconsequential.
- incremental plotter — a device that plots graphs on paper from computer-generated instructions
- indeterminate vowel — schwa.
- index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
- index of refraction — a number indicating the speed of light in a given medium as either the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to that in the given medium (absolute index of refraction) or the ratio of the speed of light in a specified medium to that in the given medium (relative index of refraction) Symbol: n.
- induction hardening — a process in which the outer surface of a metal component is rapidly heated by means of induced eddy currents. After rapid cooling the resulting phase transformations produce a hard wear-resistant skin
- inelastic collision — a collision in which the total kinetic energy of the colliding bodies or particles is not the same after the collision as it was before (opposed to elastic collision).
- inflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- informal settlement — a squatter camp
- information algebra — Theoretical formalism for DP, never resulted in a language. Language Structure Group of CODASYL, ca. 1962. Sammet 1969, 709.
- information content — the amount of information in something
- information highway — information superhighway