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 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 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