16-letter words containing h, a, i, n, t
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
- dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- earth-shattering — earthshaking.
- eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
- electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
- electronic flash — Photography
- encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
- english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
- englishman's tie — a type of knot for tying together heavy ropes
- enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
- epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
- erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- ethnic cleansing — genocide
- ethnocentrically — In an ethnocentric way.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
- exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
- exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
- exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
- exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
- exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
- faction fighting — dissension
- fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
- fantail goldfish — an artificially bred, hardy variety of goldfish, usually oval-shaped and deep orange or calico, with a deeply cleft, four-lobed tail held in line with the body.
- farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
- fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
- feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
- federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
- fifth-generation — denoting developments in computer design to produce machines with artificial intelligence
- find favour with — to be approved of by someone
- fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
- fisherman's knot — a knot for joining two ropes of equal thickness consisting of an overhand knot or double overhand knot by each rope round the other, so that the two knots jam when pulled tight
- flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
- flash in the pan — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
- flight formation — an arrangement of two or more airplanes flying together in a group, usually in a predetermined pattern.
- flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- fool around with — have casual sex
- for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
- for the meantime — For the meantime means for a period of time from now until something else happens.
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
- fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
- freight terminal — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.