15-letter words containing as
- grasp at straws — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
- graves' disease — a disease characterized by an enlarged thyroid, a rapid pulse, and increased basal metabolism due to excessive thyroid secretion; exophthalmic goiter.
- griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
- h g edgar degas — Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.
- harun al-rashid — a.d. 764?–809, caliph of Baghdad 786–809: one of the greatest Abbasids, he was made almost a legendary hero in the Arabian Nights.
- harun ar-rashid — a.d. 764?-809; caliph of Baghdad (786-809): given popular fame as a hero of The Arabian Nights
- has had its day — If you say that something has had its day, you mean that the period during which it was most successful or popular has now passed.
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
- hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
- hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
- heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
- hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
- hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperparasitism — an organism that is parasitic on or in another parasite.
- hyperpotassemia — hyperkalemia.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypochondriasis — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
- in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
- in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- in vino veritas — in wine there is truth; people speak the truth when they are drunk
- in/into ecstasy — If you are in ecstasy about something, you are very excited about it. If you go into ecstasies, you become very excited.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- infeasible path — dead code
- infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
- insurance class — An insurance class is a type of insurance coverage such as liability, health, legal expenses, or construction risk.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
- intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
- intrasentential — Within a sentence.
- intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- invisible glass — glass that has been curved to eliminate reflections.
- italian jasmine — an evergreen shrub, Jasminum humile, of the olive family, having fragrant, golden-yellow flowers.
- jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
- jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
- jnt association — (company) A non-profit company funded by the UK's advisory committee to manage and develop the UK national research network backbone. In 1970, the United Kingdom Computer Board commissioned Professor Mike Wells to report on UK university networking. As a result, on 1976-11-01, the Network Unit was created which in turn led to the creation in 1979 of a full-time Joint Network Team (JNT) and in 1982 to the creation of JANET. On 1993-12-10, the JNT Association was formed to develop and manage JANET for the education and research community.
- johne's disease — a chronic diarrheal disease of cattle and sheep caused by infection with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, an organism related to the tubercle bacillus.
- kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
- kissing disease — infectious mononucleosis.
- kleptoparasites — Plural form of kleptoparasite.
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
- lake mistassini — a lake in E Canada, in N Quebec: the largest lake in the province; drains through the Rupert River into James Bay. Area: 2175 sq km (840 sq miles). Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)