15-letter words containing a, t, h, o, d
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- 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 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.
- grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
- 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.
- 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.
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- half-understood — partially understood
- hard row to hoe — a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
- have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
- have got it bad — to be infatuated
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- have to do with — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
- heart condition — cardiac disorder
- heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
- hearth and home — domestic realm
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
- hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
- hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
- hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
- hernando cortez — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
- herod the great — ("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
- hexahydrothymol — menthol.
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
- human condition — mortality
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hybrid antibody — a synthetic antibody that is able to combine with two different antigens
- hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
- hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.