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15-letter words containing h, o, t, g, s

  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • finishing touch — a final additional or detail that completes and perfects something
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • flight shooting — competitive shooting for distance only.
  • foreshortenings — Plural form of foreshortening.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
  • gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
  • galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
  • gas thermometer — a device for measuring temperature by observing the change in either pressure or volume of an enclosed gas.
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
  • geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • get the best of — to surpass, defeat, or outwit; better
  • get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • go with a swing — If you say that something is going with a swing, you mean that it is lively and exciting.
  • gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
  • goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
  • goody two-shoes — goody-goody
  • goody-two-shoes — a goody-goody.
  • gopher tortoise — any North American burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, especially G. polyphemus, of the southeastern U.S.: several species are now reduced in number.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
  • great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
  • green's theorem — one of several theorems that connect an integral in n -dimensional space with one in (n − 1)-dimensional space.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
  • have a go at sb — If someone has a go at you, they criticize you, often in a way that you feel is unfair.
  • have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
  • heterogeneities — the quality or state of being heterogeneous; composition from dissimilar parts; disparateness.
  • heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
  • high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
  • high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
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