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16-letter words containing t, h, a, g

  • hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
  • have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
  • have the edge on — to have a slight advantage or superiority over
  • head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • heating engineer — a person whose job is to install and maintain equipment used for heating buildings
  • hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
  • hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
  • hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
  • herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
  • high wire artist — a performer of a high-wire act
  • high-level waste — radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated
  • high-maintenance — needing frequent maintenance or repair: My bike is high-maintenance; this is its third front wheel this month.
  • high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
  • high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • histopathologist — A person involved in histopathology.
  • historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
  • home heating oil — fuel oil for domestic central heating
  • homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
  • horary astrology — a method through which the answer to a question is sought by casting and interpreting a horoscope for the precise moment one learns of an event, problem, career opportunity, etc.
  • horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
  • horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
  • 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.
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • hygrothermograph — an instrument for recording temperature and relative humidity.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in the aggregate — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • in the long haul — in a future time
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • irrigation ditch — trench supplying land with water
  • james oglethorpeJames Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
  • johnston's organ — a sense organ in the second segment of the antenna of an insect, sensitive to movements of the antenna's flagellum, as when the insect is in flight.
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
  • knitting machine — machine that knits yarn into fabric
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