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

  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • 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.
  • heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
  • high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
  • hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • 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.
  • immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • langston hughesCharles 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 pollution — unwanted or harmful light, as from bright street lights or neon signs.
  • lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • mushroom growth — rapid increase or growth
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • occulting light — a beacon having a light covered briefly at regular intervals.
  • omnium gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
  • omnium-gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
  • opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
  • out of sight of — not in sight
  • 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.
  • photoconducting — of or relating to photoconduction
  • 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.
  • quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
  • radioautography — autoradiography.
  • religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • 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.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
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