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16-letter words containing s, i, n, t, r

  • hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • harvey firestoneHarvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • haversian system — a Haversian canal and the series of concentric bony plates surrounding it.
  • health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
  • health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
  • heat prostration — heat exhaustion.
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
  • heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • hit one's straps — to achieve one's full potential or become fully effective
  • hit one's stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
  • horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
  • 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.
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • hunt the slipper — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden slipper or other object, such as a thimble (hunt the thimble)
  • hypercorrections — Plural form of hypercorrection.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypersensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
  • hypersensitivity — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
  • hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
  • if it wasn't for — If you talk about what would happen if it wasn't for someone or something, you mean that they are the only thing that is preventing it from happening.
  • immersion heater — a small electric coil used to heat a liquid, as a cup of water, in which it is immersed.
  • immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
  • impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
  • imperceptiveness — The quality of being imperceptive.
  • imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
  • imperfectiveness — (grammar) The state or quality of being imperfective.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • in finite series — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are added successively in a given pattern; the sequence of partial sums of a given sequence.
  • in general terms — generally, approximately
  • in loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
  • in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
  • in the short run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • in the throes of — If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it.
  • in the worst way — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
  • in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
  • inarticulateness — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indian wrestling — arm wrestling
  • indirect address — the address in a storage location that contains the actual machine address of a data item or of other information, as the next instruction, or that contains another indirect address.
  • indiscernibility — The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
  • indiscriminantly — Misspelling of indiscriminately.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
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