16-letter words containing o, n, t, h
- government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
- great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
- great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
- grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
- grit one's teeth — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- growth potential — capability of expanding
- 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 thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- hair conditioner — a substance used, often after shampooing, to detangle and improve the condition of the hair. Like shampoo, it is applied to wet hair and then rinsed out after applying.
- half-blind joint — a corner dovetail joint visible on one face only.
- hamiltonian path — Hamiltonian problem
- hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
- hare's-foot fern — a fern, Polypodium aureum, of tropical America, having a brown, scaly rootstock and green or deep bluish-green fronds.
- harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
- 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 no time for — not tolerate
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- have the edge on — to have a slight advantage or superiority over
- have the wood on — to have an advantage over
- hawthorne effect — a positive change in the performance of a group of persons taking part in an experiment or study due to their perception of being singled out for special consideration.
- headed notepaper — notepaper headed with the name and address of a person or organization
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- heat of reaction — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a product is formed at constant pressure
- heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
- heat prostration — heat exhaustion.
- hedge one's bets — If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- hemolytic anemia — an anemic condition characterized by the destruction of red blood cells: seen in some drug reactions and in certain infectious and hereditary disorders.
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- hen of the woods — a large, grayish-brown, edible fungus, Polyporus frondosus, forming a mass of overlapping caps at the base of trees and somewhat resembling a hen.
- henley-on-thames — a city in SE Oxfordshire, in S England: annual rowing regatta.
- hepatopancreases — Plural form of hepatopancreas.
- herman hollerith — (person) The promulgator of the punched card. Hollerith was born on 1860-02-29 and died on 1929-11-17. He graduated from Columbia University, NewYork, NY, USA. He joined the US Census Bureau as a statistician where he used a punched card device to help analyse the 1880 US census data. This punched card system stored data in 80 columns. This "80-column" concept has carried forward in various forms into modern applications. In 1896, Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to exploit his invention and in 1924 his firm became part of IBM. The Hollerith system was used for the 1911 UK census. A correspondant writes: Wasn't Hollerith's original machine first used for the 1990 US census? And I think I am right in saying that the physical layout was a 20x12 grid of round holes. The one I have seen (picture only, unfortunately, not the real thing) did not use 'columns' as such but holes were grouped into irregularly-shaped fields, such that each hole had a more-or-less independent function.
- hernando de soto — Hernando [her-nan-doh;; Spanish er-nahn-daw] /hərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), or Fernando [fer-nan-doh;; Spanish fer-nahn-daw] /fərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), c1500–42, Spanish soldier and explorer in America.
- heroin addiction — addiction to the drug heroin
- hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
- heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- hexachloroethane — a colorless crystalline compound, C 2 Cl 6 , with a camphorlike odor, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in organic synthesis and pyrotechnics, as a retarding agent in fermentation, and as a solvent.
- hierophantically — In a hierophantic manner; in the manner of a hierophant.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.