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15-letter words containing e, i, g, h, t

  • historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
  • hit the ceiling — the overhead interior surface of a room.
  • 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 cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
  • hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hyper-energetic — possessing or exhibiting energy, especially in abundance; vigorous: an energetic leader.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
  • if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
  • in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
  • in keeping with — in conformity or accord with
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in the eighties — between 80–89 degrees in temperature
  • in the light of — in view of, given
  • in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • in the negative — by saying no
  • indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
  • inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
  • 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.
  • insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangement — the act of interchanging
  • interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • it is high time — If you say that it is high time that something happened or was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner.
  • kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • 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 artillery — guns and howitzers of small caliber.
  • light flyweight — an amateur boxer weighing not more than 48 kg (106 pounds)
  • light-sensitive — (of a surface) having a photoelectric property, such as the ability to generate a current, change its electrical resistance, etc, when exposed to light
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
  • lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
  • like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
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