15-letter words containing t, a, e, n
- hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
- horizontal well — A horizontal well is a well which has sections that have been drilled at more than 80 degrees from the vertical in order to penetrate a greater length of the reservoir.
- hospital corner — 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.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- hunter-gatherer — a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
- hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoproteinemia — an abnormally low concentration of protein in the blood.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
- identical twins — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- identity matrix — a matrix that has 1 in each position on the main diagonal and 0 in all other positions.
- identity papers — law: legal documents
- identity parade — law: police lineup
- ille-et-vilaine — a department in W France. 2700 sq. mi. (7000 sq. km). Capital: Rennes.
- illimitableness — The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
- image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
- immaterializing — Present participle of immaterialize.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- implementations — Plural form of implementation.
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
- in all but name — If you say that a situation exists in all but name, you mean that it is not officially recognized even though it exists.
- in all weathers — If you say that someone does something in all weathers, you mean that they do it regularly whether the weather is good or bad.
- in at the death — the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Compare brain death.
- in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
- in fine feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- in harness with — in cooperation with
- in one's tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- in rerum natura — in the nature of things