19-letter words containing t, o, g, a, h

from rags to riches — a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
general of the army — the highest ranking military officer; the next rank above general.
geothermal gradient — the increase in temperature with increasing depth within the earth.
get the hang of sth — If you get the hang of something such as a skill or activity, you begin to understand or realize how to do it.
giant silkworm moth — any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae.
glottochronological — Of or pertaining to glottochronology.
go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
go off at half-cock — to fail as a result of inadequate preparation or premature starting
go on a/the rampage — If people go on a rampage, they rush around in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
go to great lengths — If you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things in order to achieve it.
go under the hammer — to be offered for sale by an auctioneer
goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
goldbach conjecture — an unproved theorem that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.
grandfather's clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
grandmother's clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
graphic workstation — (graphics, computer) A workstation specifically configured for graphics works such as image manipulation, bitmap graphics ("paint"), and vector graphics ("draw") type applications. Such work requires a powerful CPU and a high resolution display. A graphic workstation is very similar to a CAD workstation and, given the typical specifications of personal computers currently available in 1999, the distinctions are very blurred and are more likely to depend on availability of specific software than any detailed hardware requirements.
great idaean mother — Cybele.
great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
grocer's apostrophe — an apostrophe placed before a final s intended to indicate the plural but in fact forming the possessive
gulf of tehuantepec — an inlet of the Pacific on the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in S Mexico
hang five (or ten) — to ride a surfboard with the toes of one (or both) feet draped over the front edge of the board
hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
hanging indentation — a style of text-setting in which the first line of a paragraph is set to the full measure and subsequent lines are indented at the left-hand side
hate someone's guts — to hate someone intensely
haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
have a good mind to — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
have an ax to grind — an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
have designs on sth — If someone has designs on something, they want it and are planning to get it, often in a dishonest way.
have the makings of — show potential as
heel-and-toe racing — race walking.
henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
horizontal drilling — Horizontal drilling is drilling in which the direction of the wellbore is more than 80 degrees from the vertical.
horizontal encoding — (processor) An instruction set where each field (a bit or group of bits) in an instruction word controls some functional unit or gate directly, as opposed to vertical encoding where instruction fields are decoded (by hard-wired logic or microcode) to produce the control signals. Horizontal encoding allows all possible combinations of control signals (and therefore operations) to be expressed as instructions whereas vertical encoding uses a shorter instruction word but can only encode those combinations of operations built into the decoding logic. An instruction set may use a mixture of horizontal and vertical encoding within each instruction. Because an architecture using horizontal encoding typically requires more instruction word bits it is sometimes known as a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture.
housing association — A housing association is an organization which owns houses and helps its members to rent or buy them more cheaply than on the open market.
human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
induction hardening — a process in which the outer surface of a metal component is rapidly heated by means of induced eddy currents. After rapid cooling the resulting phase transformations produce a hard wear-resistant skin
information highway — information superhighway
inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
instant photography — photography using an instant camera.
islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
kirlian photography — a photographic process that supposedly records electrical discharges naturally emanating from living objects, producing an auralike glow surrounding the object on a photographic plate or film with which the object is in direct contact.
knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
know a thing or two — be experienced in sth

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