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17-letter words containing an

  • human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
  • hungarian goulash — goulash (def 1).
  • hurricane warning — a storm warning given for winds with speeds exceeding 63 knots (72 mph, 32 m/sec) when the source of the winds is a tropical cyclone.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hypophrygian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from B to B, with the final on E.
  • i can't be fagged — I can't be bothered
  • i will/can manage — You say 'I can manage' or 'I'll manage' as a way of refusing someone's offer of help and insisting on doing something by yourself.
  • i'd give anything — You use give in phrases such as I'd give anything, I'd give my right arm, and what wouldn't I give to emphasize that you are very eager to do or have something.
  • i'll thank you to — used ironically to intensify a command, request, etc
  • iberian peninsula — Also called Iberian Peninsula. a peninsula in SW Europe, comprising Spain and Portugal.
  • illegal immigrant — a person who has entered a country illegally
  • image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners
  • immediate annuity — an annuity bought with a single premium, with payments to the annuitant to begin at the end of one payment period, as a month or a year.
  • immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
  • in (great) demand — If someone or something is in demand or in great demand, they are very popular and a lot of people want them.
  • in the same canoe — of the same tribe
  • in-band signaling — in-band signalling
  • incandescent lamp — a lamp that emits light due to the glowing of a heated material, especially the common device in which a tungsten filament enclosed within an evacuated glass bulb is rendered luminous by the passage of an electric current through it.
  • indian paintbrush — any of several semiparasitic plants belonging to the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, as C. linariaefolia, of the western U.S.: the state flower of Wyoming.
  • indian restaurant — a restaurant that serves Indian food
  • indian rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
  • indian strawberry — a plant, Duchesnea indica, of the rose family, native to India, having yellow flowers and inedible fruit resembling strawberries.
  • industry standard — an established standard, norm, or requirement in a particular area of business
  • inertial guidance — a guidance system for an aerospace vehicle, in which self-contained devices determine the vehicle's course on the basis of the directions and magnitudes of the accelerations it undergoes in flight.
  • infantry division — a military division composed of infantry
  • infralapsarianism — the doctrine, held by Augustinians and by many Calvinists, that God planned the Creation, permitted the Fall, elected a chosen number, planned their redemption, and suffered the remainder to be eternally punished (opposed to supralapsarianism).
  • instance variable — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
  • instant messaging — Instant messaging is a form of written communication that allows you to send messages from one computer to another. The message appears immediately on the screen of the computer you send it to, provided the computer is using the service. The abbreviation IM is also used.
  • instantaneousness — Condition of being instantaneous.
  • insurance carrier — company issuing an insurance policy
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • insurance premium — payment on an insurance policy
  • intangible assets — intellectual property, etc.
  • interim financing — temporary financing
  • interlibrary loan — a system by which one library obtains a work for a user by borrowing it from another library.
  • 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.
  • intertranslatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
  • intertrochanteric — (anatomy) Between the two trochanters of the femur.
  • intransitive verb — a verb that indicates a complete action without being accompanied by a direct object, as sit or lie, and, in English, that does not form a passive.
  • inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
  • investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
  • invisible balance — the difference in value between total exports of services plus payment of property incomes from abroad and total imports of services plus payment abroad of property incomes
  • island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
  • isthmus of panama — an isthmus linking North and South America, between the Pacific and the Caribbean. Length: 676 km (420 miles). Width (at its narrowest point): 50 km (31 miles)
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • ivan the terrible — ("Ivan the Terrible") 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.
  • jammu and kashmir — official name of Kashmir (def 2).
  • japanese barberry — a thorny barberry, Berberis thunbergii, of Japan, having yellow flowers and bearing bright-red fruit, grown as a hedge plant.
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