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

  • give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • grain itch mite — a mite, Pyemotes ventricosus, that often occurs in straw and normally feeds on the larvae of insects but opportunistically bites humans, causing an itching dermatitis.
  • 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.
  • graphic granite — a pegmatite that has crystals of gray quartz imbedded in white or pink microcline in such a manner that they resemble cuneiform writing.
  • graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  • great sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 1).
  • great white way — the theater district along Broadway, near Times Square in New York City.
  • great-sanhedrin — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
  • gregorian chant — the plain song or cantus firmus used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • hang in (there) — to hold steadfast; persevere
  • have a right to — be entitled to
  • have got it bad — to be infatuated
  • have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
  • have nothing on — be naked
  • heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heating element — a coil or other arrangement of wire in which heat is produced by an electric current
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • height-to-paper — the standard height of type, measured from the foot to the face, in the U.S. 0.918 of an inch (2.33 cm).
  • hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
  • heritage centre — a museum that houses exhibits describing the culture and history of a particular place and its inhabitants
  • hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
  • high-angle shot — a shot taken from a camera positioned above the action
  • high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
  • highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
  • historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
  • in the negative — by saying no
  • 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.
  • 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.
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