15-letter words containing h, e, n, t, s

horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
hostile witness — a witness who gives evidence against the party calling him
housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
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.
hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
hunt the wumpus — (games, history) (Or "Wumpus") /wuhm'p*s/ A famous fantasy computer game, created by Gregory Yob in about 1973. Hunt the Wumpus appeared in Creative Computing, Vol 1, No 5, Sep - Oct 1975, where Yob says he had come up with the game two years previously, after seeing the grid-based games Hurkle, Snark and Mugwump at People's Computing Company (PCC). He later delivered Wumpus to PCC who published it in their newsletter. ESR says he saw a version including termites running on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1972-3. Magnus Olsson, in his 1992-07-07 USENET article <[email protected]>, posted the BASIC source code of what he believed was pretty much the version that was published in 1973 in David Ahl's "101 Basic Computer Games", by Digital Equipment Corporation. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and M"obius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five "crooked arrows"; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus (which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location (later versions added "anaerobic termites" that ate arrows, bat migrations and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured ADVENT and Zork and was directly ancestral to both (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). There have been many ports including one distributed with SunOS, a freeware one for the Macintosh and a C emulation by ESR.
huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
hyposensitivity — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
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.
immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
in all weathers — If you say that someone does something in all weathers, you mean that they do it regularly whether the weather is good or bad.
in harness with — in cooperation with
in spite of sth — You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising.
in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
in the box seat — in the best position
in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
in the eighties — between 80–89 degrees in temperature
in the hands of — under the control of
in the midst of — amid, among
in the nineties — between 90–99 degrees in temperature
in the old days — a long time ago
in the same way — similarly
in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
indirect speech — Indirect speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words: for example, 'They said you didn't like it', 'I asked him what his plans were', and 'Citizens complained about the smoke'.
indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
infeasible path — dead code
inhomogeneities — 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.
interior salish — in Canada, a division of the peoples who speak Salish languages
interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
ironstone china — a tough durable earthenware
isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
isothiocyanates — Plural form of isothiocyanate.
ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
john lewis list — a list used by clerks in the House of Commons to assess the amount that may reasonably be claimed for various items by Members of Parliament as living expenses
john ousterhout — (person) /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
joint ownership — sharing of property

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