15-letter words containing h, e, n, g, s
- hog-nosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
- homogeneousness — (rare) homogeneity, the state of having a uniform composition.
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
- hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
- hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
- hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
- in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
- in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
- in the eighties — between 80–89 degrees in temperature
- indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
- ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
- inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
- inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- john j pershing — John Joseph ("Blackjack") 1860–1948, U.S. general: commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- label switching — (networking) A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
- langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
- laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
- light-sensitive — (of a surface) having a photoelectric property, such as the ability to generate a current, change its electrical resistance, etc, when exposed to light
- lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
- lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
- montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
- napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
- neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
- neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
- neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.