18-letter words containing ni
- fuming nitric acid — a colorless, yellowish, or brownish fuming corrosive liquid, usually prepared from nitric acid by the addition of excess nitrogen dioxide: used in organic synthesis for nitration, and as an oxidizer in liquid propellants for rockets.
- furnishing fabrics — fabrics used to make and cover furniture
- galvanic corrosion — Galvanic corrosion is a type of corrosion caused by bringing together two different metals, one of which corrodes more rapidly than it would alone while the other corrodes less rapidly.
- genital mutilation — any type of cutting or removal of all or some of the genital organs, especially excision of the clitoris.
- golden opportunity — perfect chance
- grand penitentiary — See under penitentiary (def 3).
- gulf of california — an arm of the Pacific Ocean, between Sonora and Lower California
- heart-rate monitor — a machine that monitors or records a person's heart rate
- hotel receptionist — a person who looks after guests when they first arrive at a hotel, checking them in, giving them their keys, etc
- hyperaldosteronism — aldosteronism.
- ignition interlock — interlock (def 10).
- in the vicinity of — near to, in the area around
- indefinite article — an article, as English a, an, that denotes class membership of the noun it modifies without particularizing it.
- indefinite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.
- induction training — training intended to enable new staff and recruits to do their work
- infertility clinic — a clinic which helps people who are having problems conceiving
- initial commission — Initial commission is commission that is paid to someone who sells or recommends a financial product for the first time.
- intercommunication — to communicate mutually, as people.
- international unit — an internationally agreed upon standard, as measured by bioassay, to which samples of a substance, as a drug or hormone, are compared to ascertain their relative potency.
- invisible earnings — earnings from services provided rather than goods
- ionization chamber — a device for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation, consisting of a tube containing a low pressure gas and two electrodes between which a high voltage is maintained. The current between the electrodes is a function of the intensity of the radiation
- ionizing radiation — any radiation, as a stream of alpha particles or x-rays, that produces ionization as it passes through a medium.
- iphigenia in aulis — a tragedy (408? b.c.) by Euripides.
- junior common room — (in certain universities and colleges) a common room for the use of students
- junior heavyweight — a boxer weighing up to 190 pounds (85.5 kg), between light heavyweight and heavyweight.
- junior high school — a school attended after elementary school and usually consisting of grades seven through nine.
- junior lightweight — a boxer weighing up to 130 pounds (58.5 kg), between featherweight and lightweight.
- knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
- knight of the road — a tramp
- knights of pythias — a fraternal order founded in Washington, D.C., in 1864.
- lactogenic hormone — prolactin.
- language universal — a trait or property of language that exists, or has the potential to exist, in all languages.
- laning and zierler — (language) Possibly the first true working algebraic compiler. Written by J.H. Laning Jr and N. Zierler in 1953-1954 to run on MIT's Whirlwind computer.
- lenient evaluation — (reduction) An evaluation strategy, described in [Traub, FPCA 89], under which all redexes are evaluated in parallel except inside the arms of conditionals and inside lambda abstractions. Lenient evaluation is an example of an eager evaluation strategy.
- lightning arrester — a device for preventing damage to radio, telephonic, or other electric equipment from lightning or other high-voltage currents, using spark gaps to carry the current to the ground without passing through the device.
- literae humaniores — (at Oxford University) the faculty concerned with Greek and Latin literature, ancient history, and philosophy; classics
- locally finite set — a collection of sets in a topological space in which each point of the space has a neighborhood that intersects a finite number of sets of the collection.
- lunitidal interval — the period of time between the moon's transit and the next high lunar tide.
- magnetic tape unit — a computer device that moves reels of magnetic tape past read-write heads so that data can be transferred to or from the computer
- make a night of it — to cause an activity to last a night
- market opportunity — a situation in which a company can meet an unsatisfied customer need before its competitors
- maternity hospital — birthing facility
- mechanical drawing — drawing, as of machinery, done with the aid of rulers, scales, compasses, etc.
- mechanical testing — Mechanical testing is the testing of a material to find out its mechanical properties, for example its yield strength or hardness.
- medical technician — a person, not a qualified doctor, who does practical work in a hospital
- melville peninsula — a peninsula in N Canada, SE of the Gulf of Boothia. 250 miles (405 km) long.
- meniere's syndrome — a disease of the labyrinth of the ear, characterized by deafness, ringing in the ears, dizziness, and nausea.
- merchant of venice — a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.
- methylprednisolone — A synthetic glucocorticoid drug, with chemical formula C22H30O5.
- microcrystallinity — The condition of being microcrystalline.