15-letter words containing h
- interchangement — the act of interchanging
- interior salish — in Canada, a division of the peoples who speak Salish languages
- interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
- interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- inverness-shire — (until 1975) a county of NW Scotland, now part of Highland
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere
- irish wolfhound — one of an Irish breed of large, tall dogs having a rough, wiry coat ranging in color from white to brindle to black.
- ironstone china — a tough durable earthenware
- irreprehensible — Not reprehensible, blameless, without blame; innocent.
- irreprehensibly — in an irreprehensible manner
- irritable heart — cardiac neurosis.
- is that a fact? — You say is that a fact? as a response to a statement which you find surprising, interesting, or unlikely.
- isle of sheppey — an island in SE England, off the N coast of Kent in the Thames estuary: separated from the mainland by The Swale, a narrow channel. Chief towns: Sheerness, Minster. Pop: 37 852 (2001 est). Area: 80 sq km (30 sq miles)
- isolation booth — a soundproof booth located within a television studio, used to prevent the occupant, usually a contestant in a game show, from hearing certain parts of the show.
- isopropyl ether — a colorless, volatile, flammable, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 14 O, used chiefly as a solvent for waxes, fats, and resins.
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- isothiocyanates — Plural form of isothiocyanate.
- isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
- it is high time — If you say that it is high time that something happened or was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner.
- it's sb's shout — If you are in a pub and someone you are with says 'It's your shout' or 'It's my shout', they mean that it is your turn or their turn to buy a round of drinks.
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
- javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
- jayhawker state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
- jekyll and hyde — a person marked by dual personality, one aspect of which is good and the other bad.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- jewish calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by the Jews, in which time is reckoned from 3761 bc: regarded as the year of the Creation. The months, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar, have either 29 or 30 days. Originally a new month was declared when the new moon was sighted in Jerusalem, but when this became impossible, a complex formula was devised to keep Rosh Chodesh near to the new moon. In addition, to keep the harvest festivals in the right seasons, there is a Metonic cycle of 14 years, in five of which an additional month is added after Shevat. The year according to biblical reckoning begins with Nisan, and the civil year begins with Tishri; the years are numbered from Tishri
- jewish princess — JAP.
- jingling johnny — crescent (def 6).
- john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
- john chrysostom — Saint John, a.d. 347?–407, ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
- john j pershing — John Joseph ("Blackjack") 1860–1948, U.S. general: commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
- john lewis list — a list used by clerks in the House of Commons to assess the amount that may reasonably be claimed for various items by Members of Parliament as living expenses
- john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
- john ousterhout — (person) /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
- johne's disease — a chronic diarrheal disease of cattle and sheep caused by infection with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, an organism related to the tubercle bacillus.
- joint ownership — sharing of property
- joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- joseph pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- judicial branch — the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
- just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
- kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
- kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
- kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
- kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie