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15-letter words containing e, n, s, h, r, o

  • green's theorem — one of several theorems that connect an integral in n -dimensional space with one in (n − 1)-dimensional space.
  • guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
  • hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
  • hare and hounds — an outdoor game in which certain players, the hares, start off in advance on a long run, scattering small pieces of paper, called the scent, with the other players, the hounds, following the trail so marked in an effort to catch the hares before they reach a designated point.
  • harmonic series — a series in which the reciprocals of the terms form an arithmetic progression.
  • have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
  • have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • heart's content — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
  • hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
  • heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
  • heterochthonous — not indigenous; foreign (opposed to autochthonous): heterochthonous flora and fauna.
  • heterogeneities — the quality or state of being heterogeneous; composition from dissimilar parts; disparateness.
  • heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • hexylresorcinol — white or yellowish-white, needle-shaped crystals, C 12 H 18 O 2 , used chiefly as an antiseptic and for the expulsion of intestinal worms.
  • hiberno-english — Also called Anglo-Irish. the English language as spoken in Ireland.
  • high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
  • high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
  • holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
  • hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • human resources — (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
  • hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
  • hyperresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
  • incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
  • interior salish — in Canada, a division of the peoples who speak Salish languages
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