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15-letter words containing a, h, o

  • galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
  • garrison finish — the finish of a race, especially a horse race, in which the winner comes from behind to win at the last moment.
  • gas thermometer — a device for measuring temperature by observing the change in either pressure or volume of an enclosed gas.
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • george marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • get a handle on — that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose: The clue was a handle for solving the mystery.
  • get outta here! — go away!
  • get the hang of — to understand the technique of doing something
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • glossographical — relating to glossography
  • go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
  • go hand in hand — belong together
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • go with a swing — If you say that something is going with a swing, you mean that it is lively and exciting.
  • godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
  • grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
  • grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
  • grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
  • great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
  • greenham common — a village in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire; site of a US cruise missile base, and, from 1981, a camp of women protesters against nuclear weapons; although the base had closed by 1991 a small number of women remained until 2000
  • gregorian chant — the plain song or cantus firmus used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • haematachometer — (dated) An apparatus for measuring the velocity of the blood.
  • haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
  • hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
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