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15-letter words containing a, s, h, t

  • in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
  • in the box seat — in the best position
  • in the hands of — under the control of
  • in the old days — a long time ago
  • in the same way — similarly
  • in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
  • infants' school — kindergarten.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
  • interior salish — in Canada, a division of the peoples who speak Salish languages
  • interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
  • ironstone china — a tough durable earthenware
  • is that a fact? — You say is that a fact? as a response to a statement which you find surprising, interesting, or unlikely.
  • isolation booth — a soundproof booth located within a television studio, used to prevent the occupant, usually a contestant in a game show, from hearing certain parts of the show.
  • isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
  • isothiocyanates — Plural form of isothiocyanate.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • jayhawker state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • latter prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, comprising those books which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets and which are divided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets
  • learn the ropes — become familiar with sth
  • least killifish — a fish, Heterandria formosa, of coastal swamps from South Carolina to Florida, that feeds on mosquito larvae.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • light in august — a novel (1932) by William Faulkner.
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • mad as a hatter — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
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