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17-letter words containing u, n, h, e, l

  • fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
  • follow the hounds — to hunt a fox, etc. on horseback with hounds
  • four on the floor — a four-speed manual transmission having the gearshift set into the floor.
  • four-on-the-floor — a four-speed manual transmission having the gearshift set into the floor.
  • french revolution — the revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
  • functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
  • haemagglutinating — That agglutinates red blood cells.
  • haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
  • hairline fracture — a very fine crack in a bone
  • half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
  • heimlich maneuver — an emergency rescue procedure for application to someone choking on a foreign object, in which the rescuer places a fist between the victim's lower ribs or upper abdomen from behind and exerts sudden pressure in the form of thrusts of sufficient force to help eject the object from the windpipe.
  • henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
  • hillel foundation — a national organization, founded in 1924 by the B'nai B'rith, that institutes and administers programs designed to enrich the religious, cultural, and social life of Jewish college students.
  • hold one's end up — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • hold one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • hold one's tongue — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • hollandaise sauce — a sauce of egg yolks, butter, lemon juice, and seasonings.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • household ammonia — diluted ammonia, often having a small quantity of detergent, used in the home for cleaning.
  • hubble's 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.
  • hurler's syndrome — a medical condition characterized by physical deformity and mental deficiency
  • huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
  • hydrogen fluoride — a colorless corrosive gas, HF, the anhydride of hydrofluoric acid, used chiefly as a catalyst and in the fluorination of hydrocarbons.
  • hydrogen sulphide — Chemistry
  • hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
  • in double harness — in a harness for two animals pulling the same carriage, plow, etc.
  • in the public eye — featured prominently in the media
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
  • interdental brush — a small brush that is used to clean between the teeth
  • interrupt handler — (software)   A routine which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock. Special care is required when writing an interrupt handler to ensure that either the interrupt which triggered the handler's execution is masked out (inhibitted) until the handler exits, or the handler is re-entrant so that multiple concurrent invocations will not interfere with each other. If interrupts are masked then the handler must execute as quickly as possible so that important events are not missed. This is often arranged by splitting the processing associated with the event into "upper" and "lower" halves. The lower part is the interrupt handler which masks out further interrupts as required, checks that the appropriate event has occurred (this may be necessary if several events share the same interrupt), services the interrupt, e.g. by reading a character from a UART and writing it to a queue, and re-enabling interrupts. The upper half executes as part of a user process. It waits until the interrupt handler has run. Normally the operating system is responsible for reactivating a process which is waiting for some low-level event. It detects this by a shared flag or by inspecting a shared queue or by some other synchronisation mechanism. It is important that the upper and lower halves do not interfere if an interrupt occurs during the execution of upper half code. This is usually ensured by disabling interrupts during critical sections of code such as removing a character from a queue.
  • island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
  • law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.
  • leizhou peninsula — a peninsula of SE China, in SW Guangdong province, separated from Hainan Island by Hainan Strait
  • light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • little blue heron — a small heron, Egretta caerulea, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • millennial church — the church of the Shakers.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • nathaniel currier — Nathaniel, 1813–88, U.S. lithographer. Compare Ives (def 4).
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