15-letter words containing h, i, g, l, o
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychographical — relating to psychographics
- psychologically — of or relating to psychology.
- psychosociology — the study of subjects, issues, and problems common to psychology and sociology.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
- religious house — a convent or monastery.
- religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
- school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
- scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
- scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- shipping losses — the total loss of a navy's ships in wartime, esp with reference to those sunk during the Second World War
- shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
- sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- southern lights — aurora australis.
- stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
- strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- thalassographic — relating to thalassography
- the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
- training school — a school that provides training in some art, profession, or vocation.
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- typographically — of or relating to typography.
- unchronological — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- vine technology — (company) A company which provides professional consulting services in the areas of networking, real-time systems, graphic arts, and web server advertisement space. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- washington lily — a lily, Lilium washingtonianum, of the western coast of the U.S., having whorled leaves and fragrant, purple-spotted white flowers.
- washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
- whaling station — a place where the carcases of whales were processed
- whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- xerographically — In a xerographic way; by xerography.
- xylotypographic — involving or pertaining to xylotypography
- yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.