15-letter words containing a, c, h, y
- decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demythification — the act of demythifying
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
- disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
- dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
- electromyograph — A device used in electromyography to generate electromyograms.
- eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
- encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
- euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
- every which way — Every which way and any which way are used to emphasize that something happens, or might happen, in a lot of different ways, or using a lot of different methods.
- exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
- fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- fetishistically — in a fetishistic manner
- fight city hall — to take up the apparently futile fight against petty or impersonal bureaucratic authority
- flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
- flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
- gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
- graphic display — the way in which line drawings and text are displayed
- graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
- graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
- gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
- 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).
- hard mint candy — a hardened mint-flavoured sweet
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- have a nice day — pleasantry
- have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
- hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
- hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
- hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
- hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heterocercality — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- histochemically — In a histochemical manner.