17-letter words containing a, h, i, t, o

eastern townships — an area of central Canada, in S Quebec: consists of 11 townships south of the St Lawrence
echo cancellation — A process which removes unwanted echoes from the signal on a telephone line. Echoes are usually caused by impedance mismatches along an analogue line.
ehelp corporation — (company) A vendor of Microsoft Windows application development tools such as RoboHELP and RoboDemo. EHelp were formerly (around 1997) Blue Sky Software. Address: 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Telephone: +1-800-793-0364, +1 (619) 459 6365. Fax: +1 (619) 459 6366.
electroanesthesia — Anesthesia induced by cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
electrochemically — In an electrochemical manner.
electromechanical — Of, relating to, or denoting a mechanical device that is electrically operated.
electromyographic — Using electromyography.
embroidery thread — a thread used for embroidery
encephalomyelitic — Relating to encephalomyelitis.
encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
epithelialization — (biology) the process that covers a wound with epithelial tissue.
establishing shot — Cinema
ethinyloestradiol — Alternative form of ethinylestradiol.
exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
exceptional child — a gifted child
exhaust emissions — Exhaust emissions are substances that come out of an exhaust system into the atmosphere.
falling diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of the two apparent vocalic elements is of greater stress or sonority and the second is of lesser stress or sonority, as in (ī), (ou), (oi), etc.
fear and loathing — (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000).
fifth commandment — “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”: fifth of the Ten Commandments.
fifth normal form — database normalisation
first call on sth — If you have first call on something, you will be asked before anyone else whether you want to buy or use it.
fish out of water — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
flight of capital — When people lose confidence in a particular economy or market and withdraw their investment from it, you can refer to a flight of capital from that economy or market.
football hooligan — a noisy violent football supporter
fountain of youth — a fabled spring whose waters were supposed to restore health and youth, sought in the Bahamas and Florida by Ponce de León, Narváez, De Soto, and others.
freight forwarder — a person or firm that arranges to pick up or deliver goods on instructions of a shipper or a consignee from or to a point by various necessary conveyances and common carriers.
functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
further education — adult education.
garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
generalized other — an individual's internalized impression of societal norms and expectations.
genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
george washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
get in on the act — If you get in on the act, you take part in or take advantage of something that was started by someone else.
get in one's hair — to annoy one
give the go-ahead — authorize sb to do sth
glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
go down the drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
go out of fashion — be dated
go the extra mile — make an exceptional effort
go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
great white heron — a large white heron, Ardea occidentalis, of Florida and the Florida Keys.
great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood

Was this page helpful?

Yes No

Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page

Tell us why?