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15-letter words containing h, a, o

  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • tear one's hair — the act of tearing.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • thanatognomonic — signalling the nearness of death
  • thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • that's the shot — that is the right thing to do
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the common weal — the good of society
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the gift of gab — If someone has the gift of gab, they are able to speak easily and confidently, and to persuade people.
  • the greater dog — the constellation Canis Major
  • the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
  • the incarnation — the taking on of a human body by the second person of the Trinity; the joining of the divine and the human in Jesus Christ
  • the job in hand — The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment.
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the last moment — If someone does something at the last moment, they do it at the latest time possible.
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the motor trade — the business of selling and buying cars and other road vehicles
  • the ocean state — the US state of Rhode Island
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the other woman — married man's female lover
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
  • the restoration — the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
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