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15-letter words containing l, i, g, h, t, a

  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • fight city hall — to take up the apparently futile fight against petty or impersonal bureaucratic authority
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flashlight fish — any of several fishes, especially Photoblepharon palpebratus, inhabiting deep, dark waters and having light organs that can be closed with a lid.
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • 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 sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • 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
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heating element — a coil or other arrangement of wire in which heat is produced by an electric current
  • hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
  • high-angle shot — a shot taken from a camera positioned above the action
  • highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
  • histopathologic — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • light artillery — guns and howitzers of small caliber.
  • light in august — a novel (1932) by William Faulkner.
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
  • logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
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