18-letter words containing g, a, t, h

gladden sb's heart — If you say that something gladdens someone's heart, you mean that it makes them feel pleased and hopeful.
go back to the mat — to abandon urban civilization
go for the jugular — Anatomy. of or relating to the throat or neck. noting or pertaining to any of certain large veins of the neck, especially one (external jugular vein) collecting blood from the superficial parts of the head or one (internal jugular vein) collecting blood from within the skull.
go to the bathroom — use the toilet
go with the stream — to conform to the accepted standards
goods and chattels — personal property
grandfather clause — U.S. History. a clause in the constitutions of some Southern states after 1890 intended to permit whites to vote while disfranchising blacks: it exempted from new literacy and property qualifications for voting those men entitled to vote before 1867 and their lineal descendants.
grease the palm of — to influence by giving money to; bribe
great white father — the president of the U.S.
greater manchester — a metropolitan county in central England, with the city of Manchester as its center. 498 sq. mi. (1290 sq. km).
greater pichiciego — an armadillo, Burmeisteria retusa, similar to, but larger than, a pichiciego
greater shearwater — a sooty-brown and white shearwater, Puffinus gravis, of eastern coasts of the Western Hemisphere.
haulage contractor — a person or firm that transports goods by lorry
have (got) it made — to be assured of success
have a thing about — If you have a thing about someone or something, you have very strong feelings about them.
have got to do sth — You use have got to when you are saying that something is necessary or must happen in the way stated. In informal American English, the 'have' is sometimes omitted.
hearing impairment — partial deafness
heart-lung machine — a device through which blood is shunted temporarily for oxygenation during surgery, while the heart or a lung is being repaired.
heating degree-day — a degree-day below the standard temperature of 65°F or 19°C, used in estimating fuel consumption.
heavy middleweight — a professional wrestler weighing 177–187 pounds (81–85 kg)
hegelian dialectic — an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis) the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis)
hell or high water — whatever difficulties may arise
hepatosplenomegaly — Enlargement of both the liver and spleen.
hermaphrodite brig — a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the mainmast.
hidalgo y costilla — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1753–1811, Mexican priest, patriot, and revolutionist.
higher mathematics — the advanced portions of mathematics, customarily considered as embracing all beyond ordinary arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and trigonometry.
highlight halftone — dropout (def 7).
histomorphological — histology.
historical geology — the branch of geology dealing with the history of the earth.
horizontal tasting — a tasting of wines from the same year but from different vineyards, producers, etc.
house of delegates — the lower house of the General Assembly in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.
human rights group — a group that campaigns for human rights
hungarian notation — (language, convention) A linguistic convention requiring one or more letters to be added to the start of variable names to denote scope and/or type. Hungarian Notation is mainly confined to Microsoft Windows programming environments, such as Microsoft C, C++ and Visual Basic. It was originally devised by Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian, who was a senior programmer at Microsoft for many years. He disliked the way that names in C programs gave no clue as to the type, leading to frequent programmer errors. According to legend, fellow programmers at Microsoft, on seeing the convoluted, vowel-less variable names produced by his scheme, said, "This might as well be in Greek - or even Hungarian!". They made up the name "Hungarian notation" (possibly with "reverse Polish notation" in mind). Hungarian Notation is not really necessary when using a modern strongly-typed language as the compiler warns the programmer if a variable of one type is used as if it were another type. It is less useful in object-oriented programming languages such as C++, where many variables are going to be instances of classes and so begin with "obj". In addition, variable names are essentially only comments, and thus are just as susceptible to becoming out-of-date and incorrect as any other comment. For example, if a signed short int becomes an unsigned long int, the variable name, and every use of it, should be changed to reflect its new type. A variable's name should describe the values it holds. Type and scope are aspects of this, but Hungarian Notation overemphasises their importance by allocating so much of the start of the name to them. Furthermore, type and scope information can be found from the variable's declaration. Ironically, this is particularly easy in the development environments in which Hungarian Notation is typically used.
huntington station — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
hypogastric artery — iliac artery (def 3).
i'll give you that — You say I'll give you that to indicate that you admit that someone has a particular characteristic or ability.
immunohistological — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
impedance matching — the technique of choosing or adjusting electric circuits and components so that the impedance of the load is equal to the internal impedance of the power source, thereby optimizing the power transfer from source to load.
in (the) aggregate — If a number of different things or amounts are considered in aggregate, or in the aggregate, they are considered as a single thing or amount.
incidental charges — Incidental charges are costs of items and services that are not part of the main bill.
industrial hygiene — the science that assesses, controls, and prevents occupational factors or sources of stress in the workplace that may significantly affect the health and well-being of employees or of the community in general
interchangeability — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
james-lange theory — a theory that emotions are caused by bodily sensations; for example, we are sad because we weep
johannes gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
junior heavyweight — a boxer weighing up to 190 pounds (85.5 kg), between light heavyweight and heavyweight.
kansas gay-feather — prairie button snakeroot.
king of the castle — most powerful figure
king-of-the-salmon — a ribbonfish, Trachypterus altivelis, of northern parts of the Pacific Ocean.
knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
knight of the road — a tramp

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