15-letter words containing o, n, t, h
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
- fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
- fifth dimension — a theoretical dimension beyond or in addition to a fourth dimension.
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- fine-tooth comb — a comb having narrow, closely set teeth.
- finishing touch — a final additional or detail that completes and perfects something
- flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
- 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 shooting — competitive shooting for distance only.
- 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
- fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
- food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
- for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
- 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.
- founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
- fourth position — a position in which the feet are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out, with one foot forward and the other foot back.
- frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
- free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
- free throw line — foul line (def 2).
- french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
- friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
- galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
- gene technology — manipulation of DNA
- geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
- geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
- 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.
- get the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- get the hang of — to understand the technique of doing something
- get the jump on — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- 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.
- globe lightning — ball lightning.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- green's theorem — one of several theorems that connect an integral in n -dimensional space with one in (n − 1)-dimensional space.
- gregorian chant — the plain song or cantus firmus used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.
- griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
- 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.
- growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth