14-letter words containing s, g
- home schooling — Home schooling is the practice of educating your child at home rather than in a school.
- homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
- honours degree — a degree at honours level
- hooker's green — a medium green to strong yellowish green.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hospital light — hopper casement.
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- household gods — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- 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.
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hygroscopicity — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
- hyperhygienist — Being too hygienic.
- hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
- hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
- ichthyophagist — a person who eats or subsists on fish.
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- imaginary axis — the vertical axis in an Argand diagram.
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
- 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.
- 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 one's glory — at one's best, happiest, etc.
- in single file — one behind another
- in this regard — on this point
- incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
- incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
- 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)!
- indigenisation — Alternative spelling of indigenization.
- indigenousness — The quality or state of being indigenous.
- ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
- ingressiveness — Quality of being ingressive.
- inland passage — Inside Passage
- insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
- inside passage — protected sea route along the W coast of North America, from Seattle, Wash., to the N part of the Alas. panhandle: the route uses channels and straits between islands and the mainland: c. 950 mi (1,529 km) long
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- insignificance — the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.