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15-letter words containing se

  • hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
  • heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
  • heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
  • heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
  • hog-nosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • hold one's nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
  • hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
  • horse artillery — cavalry equipped with artillery
  • horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • horsepower-hour — a foot-pound-second unit of energy or work, equal to the work done by a mechanism with a power output of one horsepower over a period of one hour.
  • house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
  • house of prayer — house of God.
  • house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
  • household goods — kitchenware and other utensils for use in the home
  • household linen — items made of cloth, such as tablecloths, sheets, and pillowcases, that are used in the home
  • housemistresses — Plural form of housemistress.
  • housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
  • hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
  • hyperpotassemia — hyperkalemia.
  • hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
  • hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
  • hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hyposensitivity — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
  • i don't suppose — You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
  • if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
  • immune response — any of the body's immunologic reactions to an antigen.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
  • in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
  • in mid-sentence — halfway through saying sth
  • in the box seat — in the best position
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
  • inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
  • indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
  • inertia selling — (in Britain) the illegal practice of sending unrequested goods to householders followed by a bill for the price of the goods if they do not return them
  • infinite 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.
  • insensitiveness — Quality of being insensitive.
  • inseparableness — The quality or state of being inseparable.
  • instruction set — (architecture)   The collection of machine language instructions that a particular processor understands. The term is almost synonymous with "instruction set architecture" since the instructions are fairly meaningless in isolation from the registers etc. that they manipulate.
  • insuring clause — the clause in an insurance policy setting forth the kind and degree of coverage granted by the insurer.
  • intellectualise — to seek or consider the rational content or form of.
  • intertransverse — (anatomy) Between the transverse processes of the vertebrae.
  • intrasentential — Within a sentence.
  • island universe — an external galaxy.
  • japanese beetle — a small beetle, Popillia japonica, of the scarab family, introduced into the eastern U.S. from Japan, the adult of which feeds on the foliage of fruit and other trees, and the larva of which feeds on plant roots.
  • japanese laurel — an eastern Asian evergreen shrub, Aucuba japonica, of the dogwood family, having dark-green, glossy leaves and scarlet berries.
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