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17-letter words containing o, s, h, g

  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • hung up on sb/sth — obsessively or exclusively interested in
  • hungarian goulash — goulash (def 1).
  • hydrogasification — a high-temperature, high-pressure process for producing liquid or gaseous fuels from fine particles of coal and hydrogen gas
  • hydrogen sulphide — Chemistry
  • hypoglossal nerve — either one of the twelfth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the tongue.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • khingan mountains — a mountain system of NE China, in W Manchuria. Highest peak: 2034 m (6673 ft)
  • kinesthesiologist — Someone who practices kinesthesiology.
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • let something rip — If you let something rip, you do it as quickly or as forcefully as possible. You can say 'let it rip' or 'let her rip' to someone when you want them to make a vehicle go as fast as it possibly can.
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • lighthouse keeper — a person who mans a lighthouse and makes sure that the light is working properly
  • lithostratigraphy — the study or character of stratified rocks based solely on their physical and petrographic features.
  • loggerhead shrike — a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
  • loose-joint hinge — a hinge having a knuckle formed from half of each flap, and with the upper half removable from the pin.
  • lose the exchange — to lose a rook in return for a bishop or knight
  • make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
  • make something of — to find a use for
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • mystical theology — the branch of theology dealing with mysticism and mystical experiences.
  • navigation lights — lights on an aircraft
  • neurophysiologist — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychologist — A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
  • nonteaching staff — employees within an academic or vocational environment whose jobs do not involve teaching
  • northeast passage — a ship route along the N coast of Europe and Asia, between the North Sea and the Pacific.
  • northern kingfish — a croaker, Menticirrhus saxatilis, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S.
  • northwest passage — a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • nothing less than — You can use nothing less than to emphasize your next words, often indicating that something seems very surprising or important.
  • on second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • one-stop shopping — the provision of everything that a customer or client might require in one place
  • organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
  • organic psychosis — a severe mental illness produced by damage to the brain, as a result of poisoning, alcoholism, disease, etc
  • organophosphorous — Misspelling of organophosphorus.
  • orifice discharge — Orifice discharge is a model for calculating how quickly a fluid will come out of a punctured vessel or pipe.
  • overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
  • pastoral theology — the branch of theology dealing with the responsibilities of members of the clergy to the people under their care.
  • philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • positive theology — a theological approach or tradition in which the nature of God is thought to be knowable and is understood through positive statements. See also cataphasis (def 2).
  • positive thinking — an optimistic attitude
  • psychodiagnostics — the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.
  • psychographically — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • put on the gloves — to box
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