17-letter words that end in s
- have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
- heart of darkness — a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad.
- heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
- heating apparatus — an apparatus that heats something
- hemiglossectomies — Plural form of hemiglossectomy.
- hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
- heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
- heterochromosomes — Plural form of heterochromosome.
- high-heeled shoes — shoes having high, rather than flat, heels
- hillcrest heights — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- hippocampal gyrus — a convolution on the inner surface of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, bordering the hippocampus.
- hit the headlines — be prominently featured in the news
- hold all the aces — If you say that someone holds all the aces, you mean that they have all the advantages in a contest or situation.
- hold one's horses — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- home improvements — improvements to one's home, such as new kitchens and bathrooms, central heating etc
- homo floresiensis — a possible species of very small, primitive human: its fossils were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003.
- horror of horrors — Horror of horrors is used to refer to something that you consider to be the worst part of a situation.
- horticulturalists — Plural form of horticulturalist.
- hot off the press — newspaper: freshly printed
- hot on sb's heels — If you say that someone is hot on your heels, you are emphasizing that they are chasing you and are not very far behind you.
- household effects — domestic belongings
- how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
- hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
- hyper-peristalsis — the progressive wave of contraction and relaxation of a tubular muscular system, especially the alimentary canal, by which the contents are forced through the system.
- hypsilophodontids — Plural form of hypsilophodontid.
- icositetrahedrons — Plural form of icositetrahedron.
- identity politics — political activity or movements based on or catering to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or social interests that characterize a group identity.
- if all else fails — You say if all else fails to suggest what could be done in a certain situation if all the other things you have tried are unsuccessful.
- immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
- immunodiagnostics — the determination of immunologic characteristics of individuals, cells, and other biologic entities.
- impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
- in double figures — An amount or number that is in single figures is between zero and nine. An amount or number that is in double figures is between ten and ninety-nine. You can also say, for example, that an amount or number is in three figures when it is between one hundred and nine hundred and ninety-nine.
- in double harness — in a harness for two animals pulling the same carriage, plow, etc.
- in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
- in the wilderness — If politicians or other well-known people spend time in the wilderness, they are not in an influential position or very active in their profession for that time.
- inappropriateness — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- inclusive fitness — the fitness of an individual organism as measured in terms of the survival and reproductive success of its kin, each relative being valued according to the probability of shared genetic information, an offspring or sibling having a value of 50 percent and a cousin 25 percent.
- incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- inconceivableness — The quality of being inconceivable.
- inconsiderateness — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- inconspicuousness — The condition of being inconspicuous.
- indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
- indescribableness — The quality of being indescribable.
- indeterminateness — The quality of being indeterminate.
- indicator species — See at indicator (def 6).
- indispensableness — The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
- indistinctiveness — The quality of being indistinctive.
- inefficaciousness — Lack of efficacy.
- inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
- installment sales — Installment sales are sales where fixed payments will be made regularly over a particular period of time.