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15-letter words containing ha

  • electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • elephant's-foot — a monocotyledonous plant, Testudinaria elephantipes, of southern Africa, with a very large starchy tuberous stem, covered in corky scales: family Dioscoreaceae
  • encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
  • encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • english channel — waterway between England and France
  • epikeratophakia — The surgical correction of aphakia. It is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea.
  • exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • exhaustlessness — the quality of being exhaustless
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
  • fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
  • fight city hall — to take up the apparently futile fight against petty or impersonal bureaucratic authority
  • fighting chance — a possibility of success following a struggle.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
  • flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
  • flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
  • for that matter — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • freight charges — the price charged for conveying goods by freight
  • friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
  • funny handshake — an elaborate handshake, indicating that someone belongs to a certain social group, etc
  • garage mechanic — sb employed to repair vehicles
  • george marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
  • get a handle on — that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose: The clue was a handle for solving the mystery.
  • get the hang of — to understand the technique of doing something
  • glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • go hand in hand — belong together
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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