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15-letter words containing p, h, a, g, e

  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • french-speaking — able to speak French
  • gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • german shepherd — one of a breed of large shepherd dogs having a coat ranging in color from gray to brindled, black-and-tan, or black, used especially in police work and as a guide for the blind.
  • gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
  • 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.
  • give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
  • grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
  • 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.
  • graphic granite — a pegmatite that has crystals of gray quartz imbedded in white or pink microcline in such a manner that they resemble cuneiform writing.
  • grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • 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.
  • hapax legomenon — a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature.
  • hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • height-to-paper — the standard height of type, measured from the foot to the face, in the U.S. 0.918 of an inch (2.33 cm).
  • hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
  • herod agrippa i — 10 bc–44 ad, king of Judaea (41–44), grandson of Herod (the Great). A friend of Caligula and Claudius, he imprisoned Saint Peter and executed Saint James
  • historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
  • human megaphone — the technique of using a crowd of people to repeat a speaker's words in unison
  • hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
  • hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
  • hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
  • knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
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