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16-letter words containing a, h, u, t

  • escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
  • exchange student — sb who studies abroad
  • exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
  • federated church — a church whose membership includes two or more congregations of different denominational affiliation.
  • feel the draught — to be short of money
  • ferrous sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
  • fort sam houston — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in San Antonio, Tex.
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
  • fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
  • full steam ahead — If something such as a plan or a project goes full steam ahead, it progresses quickly.
  • functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • get the lead out — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
  • gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
  • hairbrush cactus — a stout, spiny cactus, Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum, of Mexico, having white flowers and bristly fruits sometimes used locally as combs.
  • hamiltonian tour — Hamiltonian problem
  • hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
  • has the x nature — (From Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?") Common hacker construction for "is an X", used for humorous emphasis. "Anyone who can't even use a program with on-screen help embedded in it truly has the loser nature!" See also the X that can be Y is not the true X.
  • haussmannization — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
  • have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
  • have issues with — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
  • hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
  • haymarket square — a square in Chicago: scene of a riot (Haymarket Riot) in 1886 between police and labor unionists.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • health authority — a government agency that is responsible for NHS care in a particular area
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
  • heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
  • heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
  • hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
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