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16-letter words containing g, o, s, h, a

  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
  • glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
  • go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
  • go to one's head — If alcoholic drink goes to your head, it makes you feel drunk.
  • gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • golden handshake — a special incentive, as generous severance pay, given to an older employee as an inducement to elect early retirement.
  • good-heartedness — the quality of being good-hearted
  • graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics)   (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gulf of honduras — an inlet of the Caribbean, on the coasts of Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize
  • gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • 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.
  • hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
  • heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
  • high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
  • histopathologist — A person involved in histopathology.
  • historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
  • horary astrology — a method through which the answer to a question is sought by casting and interpreting a horoscope for the precise moment one learns of an event, problem, career opportunity, etc.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
  • 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.
  • hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • 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
  • james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
  • johnston's organ — a sense organ in the second segment of the antenna of an insect, sensitive to movements of the antenna's flagellum, as when the insect is in flight.
  • kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
  • kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
  • lapsang souchong — a large-leafed variety of China tea with a slightly smoky flavour
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • 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.
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • maremma sheepdog — a large strongly-built sheepdog of a breed with a long, slightly wavy, white coat
  • metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
  • microphotographs — Plural form of microphotograph.
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