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19-letter words containing g, t

  • great-granddaughter — a granddaughter of one's son or daughter.
  • green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
  • greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • greenstick fracture — an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is still intact.
  • greenwich mean time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
  • grievance committee — a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers' grievances.
  • grocer's apostrophe — an apostrophe placed before a final s intended to indicate the plural but in fact forming the possessive
  • gross profit margin — A gross profit margin is a measure of the profitability of a company, that is calculated by dividing gross profit by net sales.
  • grosse pointe farms — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • grosse pointe woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
  • gulf of tehuantepec — an inlet of the Pacific on the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in S Mexico
  • hang five (or ten) — to ride a surfboard with the toes of one (or both) feet draped over the front edge of the board
  • hang in the balance — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
  • hanging indentation — a style of text-setting in which the first line of a paragraph is set to the full measure and subsequent lines are indented at the left-hand side
  • hate someone's guts — to hate someone intensely
  • haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
  • have a good mind to — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • have an ax to grind — an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
  • have designs on sth — If someone has designs on something, they want it and are planning to get it, often in a dishonest way.
  • have sth against sb — If you have something against someone or something, you dislike them.
  • have the last laugh — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
  • have the makings of — show potential as
  • head-and-tail light — a small South American characin fish, Hemmigrammus ocellifer, having shiny red eyes and tail spots, often kept in aquariums.
  • heel-and-toe racing — race walking.
  • henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
  • hermes trismegistus — a name variously ascribed by Neoplatonists and others to an Egyptian priest or to the Egyptian god Thoth, to some extent identified with the Grecian Hermes: various mystical, religious, philosophical, astrological, and alchemical writings were ascribed to him.
  • hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
  • hick-joint pointing — pointing having raked joints filled flush with the face of the masonry with a finish mortar.
  • high-flying tippler — a variety of domestic pigeon bred mainly for flying
  • high-pressure steam — High-pressure steam is steam which is at or above 75 pounds per square inch gauge pressure.
  • highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
  • histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
  • historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
  • horizontal drilling — Horizontal drilling is drilling in which the direction of the wellbore is more than 80 degrees from the vertical.
  • horizontal encoding — (processor)   An instruction set where each field (a bit or group of bits) in an instruction word controls some functional unit or gate directly, as opposed to vertical encoding where instruction fields are decoded (by hard-wired logic or microcode) to produce the control signals. Horizontal encoding allows all possible combinations of control signals (and therefore operations) to be expressed as instructions whereas vertical encoding uses a shorter instruction word but can only encode those combinations of operations built into the decoding logic. An instruction set may use a mixture of horizontal and vertical encoding within each instruction. Because an architecture using horizontal encoding typically requires more instruction word bits it is sometimes known as a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture.
  • housing association — A housing association is an organization which owns houses and helps its members to rent or buy them more cheaply than on the open market.
  • housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
  • human rights abuses — acts that contravene human rights
  • human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
  • hyperbolic geometry — the branch of non-Euclidean geometry that replaces the parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry with the postulate that two distinct lines may be drawn parallel to a given line through a point not on the given line.
  • hypersuggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
  • hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
  • i'm all right, jack — a remark indicating smug and complacent selfishness
  • immigration control — a method or methods for regulating border laws and immigration
  • immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
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