15-letter words containing t, i, g, h
- high-angle shot — a shot taken from a camera positioned above the action
- high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
- high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
- high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
- high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
- highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
- histomorphology — histology.
- histopathologic — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
- histophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with tissues.
- historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
- historiographic — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
- hit the ceiling — the overhead interior surface of a room.
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- homing instinct — an instinct that enables an animal to return home after travelling great distances
- honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
- hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
- hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
- 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.
- hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- 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.
- hyper-energetic — possessing or exhibiting energy, especially in abundance; vigorous: an energetic leader.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
- if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
- ignition switch — (on a vehicle) the part that sets the process of ignition in motion once the ignition key is turned; also a button used for the same purpose
- 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) grease — fat and ready to be killed
- in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- in a tight spot — in difficult situation
- in keeping with — in conformity or accord with
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
- in the eighties — between 80–89 degrees in temperature
- in the light of — in view of, given
- 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.
- in the negative — by saying no
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
- inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.