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15-letter words containing h

  • green lightning — [IBM] 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded. This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user know that "something is happening". That, it certainly does. Later microprocessor-driven IBM colour graphics displays were actually *programmed* to produce green lightning! 2. [proposed] Any bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit rationalisation or marketing. "Motorola calls the CISC cruft in the 88000 architecture "compatibility logic", but I call it green lightning". See also feature.
  • green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
  • green's theorem — one of several theorems that connect an integral in n -dimensional space with one in (n − 1)-dimensional space.
  • greenham common — a village in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire; site of a US cruise missile base, and, from 1981, a camp of women protesters against nuclear weapons; although the base had closed by 1991 a small number of women remained until 2000
  • greenland whale — an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat
  • gregorian chant — the plain song or cantus firmus used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
  • grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
  • guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • h g edgar degas — Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • haematachometer — (dated) An apparatus for measuring the velocity of the blood.
  • haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
  • hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • hair specialist — an expert in the treatment and care of human hair
  • hair transplant — the surgical transfer of clumps of skin with hair or of viable hair follicles from one site of the body to another, usually performed to correct baldness.
  • hale and hearty — in good health
  • half the battle — If you say that something is half the battle, you mean that it is the most important step towards achieving something.
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • half-remembered — (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • half-successful — achieving or having achieved success.
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
  • halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
  • hamersley range — a mountain range in N Western Australia: iron-ore deposits. Highest peak: 1236 m (4056 ft)
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • hampstead heath — a popular recreation area near Hampstead in N London
  • han unification — Han character
  • hang in (there) — to hold steadfast; persevere
  • hang one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • hang seng index — an index of share prices based on an average of 33 stocks quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
  • hanging glacier — a glacier situated on a shelf above a valley or another glacier; it may be joined to the lower level by an icefall or separate from it
  • hanging offence — a crime that is punishable by hanging
  • hapax legomenon — a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature.
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • hard disk drive — (storage)   (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
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