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16-letter words containing a, e, s, t, h, i

  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
  • englishman's tie — a type of knot for tying together heavy ropes
  • enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
  • erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
  • eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • ethnic cleansing — genocide
  • etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
  • exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
  • fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
  • faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
  • fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
  • fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
  • fat-tailed sheep — one of a class of sheep with much fat along the sides of the tail bones, raised for their meat and widely distributed in southeast Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.
  • father christmas — Santa Claus.
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • fisherman's knot — a knot for joining two ropes of equal thickness consisting of an overhand knot or double overhand knot by each rope round the other, so that the two knots jam when pulled tight
  • flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
  • flash in the pan — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
  • flathead catfish — a yellow and brown catfish, Pylodictus olivaris, common in the central U.S., having a flattened head and a projecting lower jaw.
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
  • ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
  • garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • get sth straight — If you get something straight, you make sure that you understand it properly or that someone else does.
  • glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
  • glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
  • hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • haemochromatosis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
  • hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
  • hammerstein (ii) — Oscar1895-1960; U.S. librettist & lyricist of musical comedies
  • hamming distance — (data)   The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • happenstantially — (rare) By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • harvest festival — religious celebration of crops gathered
  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • have issues with — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
  • haversian system — a Haversian canal and the series of concentric bony plates surrounding it.
  • hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
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