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15-letter words containing o, h, e, n

  • 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.
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • 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.
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • 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.
  • hanging offence — a crime that is punishable by hanging
  • hapax legomenon — a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature.
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • 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.
  • harmonic series — a series in which the reciprocals of the terms form an arithmetic progression.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • 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 crush on — be attracted to: sb
  • have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
  • 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 an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • have had enough — be weary, exasperated
  • have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • have nothing on — be naked
  • have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
  • 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
  • hearing ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • hearing-ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • heart condition — cardiac disorder
  • heart operation — a surgical operation performed on the heart
  • heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
  • heart's content — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • hearth and home — domestic realm
  • heat exhaustion — a condition characterized by faintness, rapid pulse, nausea, profuse sweating, cool skin, and collapse, caused by prolonged exposure to heat accompanied by loss of adequate fluid and salt from the body.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
  • heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
  • help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
  • hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • hepatocarcinoma — (pathology) cancer of the liver.
  • hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
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