18-letter words containing p, e, r, s, i, t
- hamilton's problem — Hamiltonian problem
- helicopter gunship — military attack helicopter
- helicopter station — a place where helicopters are kept in readiness for use
- hemicorporectomies — Plural form of hemicorporectomy.
- hilary of poitiers — Saint, a.d. c300–368, French bishop and theologian.
- hippocratic facies — the sallow facial expression, with listless staring eyes, often regarded as denoting approaching death
- historical present — the present tense used in narrating a past event as if happening at the time of narration.
- hotel receptionist — a person who looks after guests when they first arrive at a hotel, checking them in, giving them their keys, etc
- houghton-le-spring — a town in N England, in Sunderland unitary authority, Tyne and Wear: coal-mining. Pop: 36 746 (2001)
- hydroxytryptamines — Plural form of hydroxytryptamine.
- hyperaldosteronism — aldosteronism.
- hypercholesteremia — Alternative spelling of hypercholesteraemia.
- hypernationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hypersensitiveness — The state of being hypersensitive.
- hypersensitization — Photography. to treat (a film or emulsion) so as to increase its speed.
- hypersexualisation — Alternative spelling of hypersexualization.
- hypersexualization — The act or process of hypersexualizing.
- hypogastric artery — iliac artery (def 3).
- in the first place — firstly
- in the grip of sth — If a person, group, or place is in the grip of something, they are being severely affected by it.
- industrial dispute — disagreement between workers and managers
- inner automorphism — an automorphism that maps an element x into an element of the form axa −1 where a −1 is the inverse of a.
- inspector of taxes — an official of HMRC whose work is to assess individuals' income tax liability
- intelligence corps — a military department that gathers and analyzes information
- inter-relationship — reciprocal relation.
- interest rate swap — An interest rate swap is a contract where two parties exchange the cash flow from interest rates.
- interrelationships — Plural form of interrelationship.
- interstellar space — astronomy: space between the stars
- iron (ii) sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
- irresponsibilities — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
- isothermal process — a process that takes place without change in temperature.
- japanese artichoke — Chinese artichoke.
- justice department — the United States federal department for enforcing federal laws
- keep your shirt on — refrain from losing your temper (often used as an exhortation to another)
- lenticular process — a method for producing images with a three-dimensional effect by photographing on lenticulated film.
- linear perspective — a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point (one-point perspective) two points (two-point perspective) or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.
- list comprehension — (functional programming) An expression in a functional language denoting the results of some operation on (selected) elements of one or more lists. An example in Haskell: This returns all pairs of numbers (x,y) where x and y are elements of the list 1, 2, ..., 10, y <= x and their sum is less than 10. A list comprehension is simply "syntactic sugar" for a combination of applications of the functions, concat, map and filter. For instance the above example could be written: The term "list comprehension" appears in the references below. The earliest reference to the notation is in Rod Burstall and John Darlington's description of their language, NPL. David Turner subsequently adopted this notation in his languages SASL, KRC and Miranda, where he has called them "ZF expressions", set abstractions and list abstractions (in his 1985 FPCA paper [Miranda: A Non-Strict Functional Language with Polymorphic Types]).
- maritime provinces — region in Canada
- maternity hospital — birthing facility
- metamorphic facies — Geology. a group of metamorphic rock units characterized by particular mineralogic associations.
- methylated spirits — ethyl alcohol denatured with methyl alcohol for the purpose of preventing its use as an alcoholic beverage.
- methylprednisolone — A synthetic glucocorticoid drug, with chemical formula C22H30O5.
- microencapsulation — the process of enclosing chemical substances in microcapsules.
- microwave spectrum — a spectrum of electromagnetic radiations whose wavelengths fall in the microwave range.
- midstream operator — A midstream operator is a company that gathers, transports, and processes natural gas or oil.
- mineral supplement — a pill containing minerals that you take to improve your health
- miniature pinscher — one of a German breed of toy dogs resembling a smaller version of the Doberman pinscher, having a flat skull, a smooth coat, erect ears, and a docked tail, bred originally as a watchdog.
- minority president — (in the US) a president who has been elected by the largest number of votes cast but not by a majority of the electorate
- misinterpretations — Plural form of misinterpretation.
- misrepresentations — Plural form of misrepresentation.