16-letter words containing o, s, t, e
- gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
- haemochromatosis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- 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.
- 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.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- 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 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.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- 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.
- 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.
- hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
- heterochromosome — sex chromosome.
- heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
- heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
- hit one's straps — to achieve one's full potential or become fully effective
- hit one's stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- homeless shelter — a hostel for homeless people
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horseradish tree — a tropical tree, Moringa pterygosperma, having fragrant white flowers and seeds yielding a commercially useful oil.
- horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
- horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
- hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
- hot stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hot-stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- household knight — bachelor (def 5).
- household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
- household-knight — an unmarried man.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hyper-patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
- hypercorrections — Plural form of hypercorrection.