16-letter words containing g, e, t, s, h, o
- grit one's teeth — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- gum up the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- hedge one's bets — If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
- historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
- horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
- horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
- hot stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hot-stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- household knight — bachelor (def 5).
- household-knight — an unmarried man.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- in the spotlight — prominently featured
- james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
- light microscope — microscope (def 1).
- lighthouse clock — an American mantel clock of the early 19th century, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
- lighthouse point — a city in NW Florida.
- lightning stroke — a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
- long-established — having a long history; old
- magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
- magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
- make a go of sth — If you say that someone is making a go of something such as a business or relationship, you mean that they are having some success with it.
- metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
- mos technologies — MOS Technology
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
- muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
- nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
- narcotics charge — a criminal charge or accusation concerning the use or dealing of illegal drugs
- neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
- not the foggiest — no idea whatsoever
- oesophagogastric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the oesophagus and the stomach.
- on the same page — one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
- organophosphates — Plural form of organophosphate.
- osteoarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the study of bones found at archaeological sites
- pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- phototypesetting — Printing. photocomposition.
- process theology — a form of theology that emphasizes the close relation of human beings, nature, and God.
- prospect heights — a town in N Illinois.
- prosthetic group — the nonprotein acid constituent of a conjugate protein, as the heme group of hemoglobin.