15-letter words containing s, o, t, h, e
- get the best of — to surpass, defeat, or outwit; better
- get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
- ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- 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.
- gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
- go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
- 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.
- goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
- goody two-shoes — goody-goody
- goody-two-shoes — a goody-goody.
- gopher tortoise — any North American burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, especially G. polyphemus, of the southeastern U.S.: several species are now reduced in number.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- green's theorem — one of several theorems that connect an integral in n -dimensional space with one in (n − 1)-dimensional space.
- group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
- half-understood — partially understood
- hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
- have a go at sb — If someone has a go at you, they criticize you, often in a way that you feel is unfair.
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
- heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
- heart's content — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
- heat exhaustion — a condition characterized by faintness, rapid pulse, nausea, profuse sweating, cool skin, and collapse, caused by prolonged exposure to heat accompanied by loss of adequate fluid and salt from the body.
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
- help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
- hemicolectomies — Plural form of hemicolectomy.
- hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
- hemochromatosis — a rare metabolic disorder characterized by a bronzed skin, cirrhosis, and severe diabetes, caused by the deposit in tissue, especially of the liver and pancreas, of hemosiderin and other pigments containing iron.
- hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
- heterochthonous — not indigenous; foreign (opposed to autochthonous): heterochthonous flora and fauna.
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterogeneities — the quality or state of being heterogeneous; composition from dissimilar parts; disparateness.
- heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
- hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
- high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
- high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image