16-letter words containing o, a, h, u
- flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
- flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
- follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
- fool around with — have casual sex
- for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
- forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
- fort sam houston — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in San Antonio, Tex.
- founders' shares — shares awarded to the founders of a company and often granting special privileges
- fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
- frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
- fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
- fraunhofer lines — a set of dark lines appearing in the continuous emission spectrum of the sun. It is caused by the absorption of light of certain wavelengths coming from the hotter region of the sun by elements in the cooler outer atmosphere
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
- geoffrey chaucer — Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
- get the lead out — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- gulf of honduras — an inlet of the Caribbean, on the coasts of Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize
- gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
- haussmannization — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
- have been around — be experienced
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- health authority — a government agency that is responsible for NHS care in a particular area
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
- heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- holier-than-thou — obnoxiously pious; sanctimonious; self-righteous.
- home-equity loan — a loan that uses equity in the borrower's home as collateral.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- horizontal union — a labor union organized by skills or trades of its members rather than by industries.
- horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.