16-letter words containing r, e, n, o, l
- hopfield network — (artificial intelligence) (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
- horizontal plane — flat surface parallel to the horizon
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
- hundred-year-old — of one hundred years of age
- hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
- 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.
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- hyperventilation — excessively rapid and deep breathing.
- immoral earnings — money earned from work that transgresses accepted moral or legal rules
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- 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 loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
- 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.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
- incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
- indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
- insulin reaction — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- insurance policy — contract that insures sth
- inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- inter-laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
- intercalibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- interconsonantal — immediately following a consonant and preceding a consonant, as the a in pat.
- intercontinental — between or among continents; involving two or more continents: intercontinental trade.
- interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- intercorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- interdimensional — Between dimensions.
- interior lineman — one of the players positioned on the line of scrimmage between the ends.
- intermissionless — (US) Without an intermission; without a pause between acts in the performance of a play or in a film on television.
- internal auditor — a person who carries out an internal audit
- internationalise — (British spelling) To make something international; to involve multiple nations.
- internationalism — the principle of cooperation among nations, for the promotion of their common good, sometimes as contrasted with nationalism, or devotion to the interests of a particular nation.
- internationalist — an advocate of internationalism.
- internationality — between or among nations; involving two or more nations: international trade.
- internationalize — to make international, as in scope or character: a local conflict that was internationalized into a major war.
- internex on-line — A rather cheap Internet service provider in Toronto, Canada.
- interoperability — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- interpretational — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
- interterritorial — existing between territories: interterritorial laws.
- interventionally — In terms of, or by means of, intervention.
- intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.