14-letter words containing h, i, g, t, o
- homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
- homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hospital light — hopper casement.
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hygroscopicity — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
- hypergeometric — of or relating to operations or series that transcend ordinary geometrical operations or series
- hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
- ichthyological — Of or pertaining to ichthyology. Adjective form of ichthyology.
- ichthyophagist — a person who eats or subsists on fish.
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- in the morning — every morning
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- light-coloured — having a light colour
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
- lithographical — Of or pertaining to lithography.
- lithologically — From a lithological point of view.
- little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
- lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
- magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
- mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- methodological — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- methodologists — Plural form of methodologist.
- microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
- micropathology — the branch of pathology dealing with the microscopic study of changes that occur in tissues and cells during disease.
- monophthongise — Alternative spelling of monophthongize.
- monophthongize — to change into or pronounce as a monophthong.
- moonlight flit — a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed