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

  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • dongola leather — a leather similar to kid, made from goatskin, sheepskin, or calfskin.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • electromyograph — A device used in electromyography to generate electromyograms.
  • ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male
  • erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
  • exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
  • gas thermometer — a device for measuring temperature by observing the change in either pressure or volume of an enclosed gas.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • get a handle on — that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose: The clue was a handle for solving the mystery.
  • get outta here! — go away!
  • get the hang of — to understand the technique of doing something
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
  • grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
  • 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.
  • great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
  • 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
  • haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
  • 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.
  • have a go at sb — If someone has a go at you, they criticize you, often in a way that you feel is unfair.
  • have a right to — be entitled to
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