15-letter words containing t, a, b, e
- giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
- gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
- gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- grabber pointer — (operating system) A mouse pointer sprite in the shape of a small hand that closes when a mouse button is clicked, indicating that the object on the screen under the pointer has been selected.
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- great barracuda — a large barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, of Atlantic and western Pacific seas.
- great bear lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 12,275 sq. mi. (31,792 sq. km).
- great rebellion — English Civil War.
- 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 vegetable — a vegetable having green edible parts, as lettuce or broccoli.
- greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
- guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
- gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
- half the battle — If you say that something is half the battle, you mean that it is the most important step towards achieving something.
- 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.
- harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
- 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 got it bad — to be infatuated
- health benefits — positive effects on health
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
- heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
- hibernicization — the process or act of making Irish
- homoerotophobia — Homophobia; antipathy towards homosexuals.
- hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- illimitableness — The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- in all but name — If you say that a situation exists in all but name, you mean that it is not officially recognized even though it exists.
- in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- in the box seat — in the best position
- inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.