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17-letter words containing t, h, i, g, e

  • get in one's hair — to annoy one
  • get into bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • give the go-ahead — authorize sb to do sth
  • give to the world — to publish
  • give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
  • globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
  • glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
  • go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
  • go down the drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
  • go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
  • go the extra mile — make an exceptional effort
  • going to the dogs — If you say that something is going to the dogs, you mean that it is becoming weaker and worse in quality.
  • good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
  • great grey shrike — the bird Lanius excubitor
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • great white heron — a large white heron, Ardea occidentalis, of Florida and the Florida Keys.
  • great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
  • great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • grist to the mill — If you say that something is grist to the mill, you mean that it is useful for a particular purpose or helps support someone's point of view.
  • guerrilla theater — the presentation of short propaganda plays or skits, usually on sociopolitical themes, as war or repression, often on the streets or in other nontheater locations.
  • haemagglutinating — That agglutinates red blood cells.
  • haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
  • haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
  • hanging committee — a group of people that selects and hangs works of art to exhibit
  • hanging indention — an indention of uniform length at the beginning of each line except the first, which is flush left and of full width.
  • hardware register — (hardware, system administration)   (Or "hardware log") A list of all hardware, both internal and external, that is attached to a particular computer.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
  • heating apparatus — an apparatus that heats something
  • hemiglossectomies — Plural form of hemiglossectomy.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
  • high muckety-muck — high muck-a-muck
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
  • high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
  • higher arithmetic — arithmetic (def 2).
  • hillcrest heights — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
  • homeopathic magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
  • homogentisic acid — an intermediate compound in the metabolism of tyrosine and of phenylalanine, found in excess in the blood and urine of persons affected with alkaptonuria.
  • hope against hope — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
  • hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • hyaline cartilage — the typical, translucent form of cartilage, containing little fibrous tissue.
  • hyper-intelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
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