15-letter words containing a, u, t, o, h
- half-understood — partially understood
- han unification — Han character
- harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
- 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 to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
- 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.
- heat exhaustion — a condition characterized by faintness, rapid pulse, nausea, profuse sweating, cool skin, and collapse, caused by prolonged exposure to heat accompanied by loss of adequate fluid and salt from the body.
- 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.
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
- home automation — the control of domestic appliances by electronically controlled systems
- homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
- horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- horticulturally — With respect to horticulture.
- hour after hour — continuously for many hours
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- how about that! — isn't that interesting!
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- human condition — mortality
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
- 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.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- 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.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- 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.
- lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
- lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- local authority — council, local government
- 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
- lutzow-holm bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land.
- mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.