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15-letter words containing t, o, n, g

  • high on the hog — in a luxurious or costly way
  • high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
  • high technology — any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications (opposed to low technology).
  • 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-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • 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.
  • ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
  • ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
  • 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
  • ignition system — the system in an internal-combustion engine that produces the spark to ignite the mixture of fuel and air: includes the battery, ignition coil, distributor, spark plugs, and associated switches and wiring.
  • ignition timing — Ignition timing is the timing of the spark relative to the piston top dead center in a spark ignition engine.
  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
  • 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 a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • in a tight spot — in difficult situation
  • in good spirits — cheerful
  • in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • 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.
  • incorrigibility — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
  • inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • integrationists — Plural form of integrationist.
  • intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
  • interconnecting — Present participle of interconnect.
  • interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
  • intergeneration — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • interior design — the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features.
  • interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
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