15-letter words containing o, d, a, h
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
- foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
- founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- general holiday — a public holiday
- geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
- get a handle on — that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose: The clue was a handle for solving the mystery.
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- go hand in hand — belong together
- go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
- golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
- 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
- goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
- 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.
- 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.
- guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
- gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- half-understood — partially understood
- hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
- hang one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- hard row to hoe — a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
- hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- hare and hounds — an outdoor game in which certain players, the hares, start off in advance on a long run, scattering small pieces of paper, called the scent, with the other players, the hounds, following the trail so marked in an effort to catch the hares before they reach a designated point.
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
- have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
- have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
- have a good day — pleasantry
- have an edge on — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- have got it bad — to be infatuated
- have had enough — be weary, exasperated
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- have to do with — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
- head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.