15-letter words containing h, o, a, r, i, n
- countercharging — Present participle of countercharge.
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- court christian — ecclesiastical court.
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
- crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
- cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
- curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
- derhotacization — A distortion in (or an Inability to pronounce) the sound of letter R, causing the R to be omitted as a consonant or changing /\u025d/ or /\u025a/ to /\u025c/,/\u0259/, or another vowel if a vocalic.
- dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
- dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
- do your head in — If something or someone does your head in, they make you angry or frustrated.
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- enantiomorphism — (chemistry) The relationship exhibited by a pair of enantiomorphs.
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
- enterohepatitis — dual inflammation of the intestine and liver
- etherealization — The act or process of etherealizing.
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
- fashion-forward — relating to, anticipating, or reflecting the most up-to-date fashion trends
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
- for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
- founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
- franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- garrison finish — the finish of a race, especially a horse race, in which the winner comes from behind to win at the last moment.
- general holiday — a public holiday
- glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
- graph colouring — (application) A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
- graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.