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16-letter words containing h, o, g, s

  • high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
  • high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
  • histopathologist — A person involved in histopathology.
  • historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
  • horary astrology — a method through which the answer to a question is sought by casting and interpreting a horoscope for the precise moment one learns of an event, problem, career opportunity, etc.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
  • horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
  • horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
  • hot stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
  • hot-stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
  • hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
  • household knight — bachelor (def 5).
  • household-knight — an unmarried man.
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
  • hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in the spotlight — prominently featured
  • james oglethorpeJames Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
  • johnston's organ — a sense organ in the second segment of the antenna of an insect, sensitive to movements of the antenna's flagellum, as when the insect is in flight.
  • kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
  • kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
  • lapsang souchong — a large-leafed variety of China tea with a slightly smoky flavour
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • light microscope — microscope (def 1).
  • lighthouse clock — an American mantel clock of the early 19th century, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
  • lighthouse point — a city in NW Florida.
  • lightning stroke — a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • make a go of sth — If you say that someone is making a go of something such as a business or relationship, you mean that they are having some success with it.
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • maremma sheepdog — a large strongly-built sheepdog of a breed with a long, slightly wavy, white coat
  • metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
  • microphotographs — Plural form of microphotograph.
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • morphophysiology — The (study of the) biological interrelationship between form and physiological function.
  • mos technologies — MOS Technology
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
  • nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
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