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15-letter words containing t, a, u, g, h

  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • hawaiian guitar — a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • 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.
  • 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
  • hunter-gatherer — a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • light in august — a novel (1932) by William Faulkner.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
  • mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • omnium gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
  • omnium-gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
  • opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
  • phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • phosphate group — the group or radical obtained by removal of one or more hydrogen atoms from phosphoric acid.
  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • radioautography — autoradiography.
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • run the gantlet — to be punished by means of the gantlet
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
  • south glamorgan — a county in SE Wales. 161 sq. mi. (416 sq. km).
  • staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
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