15-letter words containing g, o, a, t
- 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
- have got it bad — to be infatuated
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- have nothing on — be naked
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
- 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
- herod the great — ("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
- hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
- high-angle shot — a shot taken from a camera positioned above the action
- histopathologic — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
- historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
- historiographic — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
- 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
- hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
- 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.
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
- image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- in a tight spot — in difficult situation
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- integrationists — Plural form of integrationist.
- intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
- interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
- intergeneration — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
- interrogational — the act of interrogating; questioning.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- interrogatories — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
- investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.