17-letter words containing ha

harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
have a bearing on — If something has a bearing on a situation or event, it is relevant to it.
have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like
have a roving eye — to show a widespread amorous interest in the opposite sex
have a short fuse — a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.
have a thick skin — to be insensitive (or acutely sensitive) to blame, criticism, insults, etc.
have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
have no words for — to be incapable of describing
have on the brain — If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
have sth to offer — If you have something to offer, you have a quality or ability that makes you important, attractive, or useful.
hawking radiation — the emission of particles by a black hole. Pairs of virtual particles in the intense gravitational field around a black hole may live long enough for one to move outward when the other is pulled into the black hole, making it appear that the black hole is emitting radiation
hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
i'll thank you to — used ironically to intensify a command, request, etc
image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners
in double harness — in a harness for two animals pulling the same carriage, plow, etc.
in the event that — if it happens that
independence hall — the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
indistinguishably — In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
interrupt handler — (software) A routine which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock. Special care is required when writing an interrupt handler to ensure that either the interrupt which triggered the handler's execution is masked out (inhibitted) until the handler exits, or the handler is re-entrant so that multiple concurrent invocations will not interfere with each other. If interrupts are masked then the handler must execute as quickly as possible so that important events are not missed. This is often arranged by splitting the processing associated with the event into "upper" and "lower" halves. The lower part is the interrupt handler which masks out further interrupts as required, checks that the appropriate event has occurred (this may be necessary if several events share the same interrupt), services the interrupt, e.g. by reading a character from a UART and writing it to a queue, and re-enabling interrupts. The upper half executes as part of a user process. It waits until the interrupt handler has run. Normally the operating system is responsible for reactivating a process which is waiting for some low-level event. It detects this by a shared flag or by inspecting a shared queue or by some other synchronisation mechanism. It is important that the upper and lower halves do not interfere if an interrupt occurs during the execution of upper half code. This is usually ensured by disabling interrupts during critical sections of code such as removing a character from a queue.
intertrochanteric — (anatomy) Between the two trochanters of the femur.
ladder-back chair — a chair with a back of two upright posts connected by horizontal slats
langerhans islets — islets of Langerhans
lanthanide series — the series of rare-earth elements of atomic numbers 57 through 71 (lanthanum through lutetium).
laryngopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and pharynx.
lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
lewis with harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
lose the exchange — to lose a rook in return for a bishop or knight
low-hanging fruit — the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach
lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.
machado y morales — Gerardo [he-rahr-th aw] /hɛˈrɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1939, president of Cuba 1925–33.
make hay (out) of — to turn (something) to one's advantage
manhattan project — U.S. History. the unofficial designation for the U.S. War Department's secret program, organized in 1942, to explore the isolation of radioactive isotopes and the production of an atomic bomb: initial research was conducted at Columbia University in Manhattan.
margaret hamilton — (person) (born 1936-08-17) A computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner, credited with coining the term software engineering. Margaret Hamilton published over 130 papers, proceedings and reports about the 60 projects and six major programs in which she has been involved. In 1965 she became Director of Software Programming at MIT's Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. At NASA, Hamilton pioneered the Apollo on-board guidance software that navigated to and landed on the Moon and formed the basis for software used in later missions. At the time, programming was a hands-on, engineering descipline; computer science and software engineering barely existed. Hamilton produced innovations in system design and software development, enterprise and process modelling, development paradigms, formal systems modelling languages, system-oriented objects for systems modelling and development, automated life-cycle environments, software reliability, software reuse, domain analysis, correctness by built-in language properties, open architecture techniques for robust systems, full life-cycle automation, quality assurance, seamless integration, error detection and recovery, man-machine interface systems, operating systems, end-to-end testing and life-cycle management. She developed concepts of asynchronous software, priority scheduling and Human-in-the-loop decision capability, which became the foundation for modern, ultra-reliable software design. The Apollo 11 moon landing would have aborted when spurious data threatened to overload the computer, but thanks to the innovative asynchronous, priority based scheduling, it eliminated the unnecessary processing and completed the landing successfully. In 1986, she founded Hamilton Technologies, Inc., developed around the Universal Systems Language and her systems and software design paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF).
margaret thatcher — Margaret (Hilda) 1925–2013, British political leader: prime minister 1979–90.
martha's vineyard — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. About 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
mass merchandiser — a retailer or retail store that seeks to sell large quantities of goods quickly through such means as discounting, customer self-service, or unadorned display and packaging, as in a warehouse.
mechanical digger — a machine used for excavation
mechanical pencil — a pencil for holding lead that can be extended by mechanical means.
mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
mechanoelectrical — Describing the production of electricity by mechanical motion; especially in a transducer.
merchant of death — a company, nation, or person that sells military arms on the international market, usually to the highest bidder and without scruple or regard for political ramifications.
merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
methylnaphthalene — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 0 , whose alpha isomer, a colorless liquid, is used in determining cetane numbers.
mexican hat dance — a dance performed by couples, consisting of eight measures during which the dancers kick out each foot alternately, followed by eight more measures during which they swing around with interlocking arms.

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