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15-letter words containing e, n, o

  • high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
  • high technology — any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications (opposed to low technology).
  • high-angle shot — a shot taken from a camera positioned above the action
  • high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
  • high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
  • hobson's choice — the choice of taking either that which is offered or nothing; the absence of a real alternative.
  • hoffman estates — a city in NE Illinois.
  • hog-nosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • hold one's hand — to stop or postpone a planned action or punishment
  • hold one's nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • 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.
  • hole-and-corner — secretive; clandestine; furtive: The political situation was full of hole-and-corner intrigue.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
  • holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
  • home automation — the control of domestic appliances by electronically controlled systems
  • homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
  • homo economicus — a theoretical human being who rationally calculates the costs and benefits of every action before making a decision, used as the basis for a number of economic theories and models
  • homogeneousness — (rare) homogeneity, the state of having a uniform composition.
  • honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
  • honeycomb tripe — a part of the inner lining of the stomach of the steer, calf, hog, or sheep, resembling a honeycomb in appearance and considered a table delicacy.
  • honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
  • hook and ladder — a fire engine, usually a tractor-trailer, fitted with long, extensible ladders and other equipment.
  • hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
  • horizontal well — A horizontal well is a well which has sections that have been drilled at more than 80 degrees from the vertical in order to penetrate a greater length of the reservoir.
  • horned cucumber — a tropical African plant, Cucumis metuliferus, having fruit with spiky, orange skin and jellylike pulp that tastes like cucumbers.
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
  • horner's method — a technique, involving successive substitutions, for approximating the real roots of an equation with real coefficients.
  • horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hostile witness — a witness who gives evidence against the party calling him
  • hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
  • hotline connect — (messaging)   A suite of communication products developed by Hotline Communications Ltd. Hotline Connect is a real-time, multi-platform Internet/Intranet communication suite, that operates independent of the web. It provides easy-to-use private and public virtual community building and live interaction with real-time chat, conferencing, messaging, data warehousing, file transfer, and viewing. Version: 1.7.2, as of 1999-12-07.
  • house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
  • household linen — items made of cloth, such as tablecloths, sheets, and pillowcases, that are used in the home
  • housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
  • 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.
  • hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
  • how do you mean — If you say 'How do you mean?' to someone, you are asking them to explain or give more details of what they have just said.
  • 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.
  • hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
  • human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
  • human megaphone — the technique of using a crowd of people to repeat a speaker's words in unison
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