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15-letter words containing a, d, h, e, r, i

  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  • great sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 1).
  • great-sanhedrin — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • hard disk drive — (storage)   (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
  • hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • have words with — to argue angrily with
  • 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
  • heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
  • hearing ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • hearing-ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • heart condition — cardiac disorder
  • heaviside layer — E layer.
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • hereditarianism — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
  • hereditarianist — a person who believes in the doctrine of hereditarianism
  • heredo-familial — denoting a condition or disease that may be passed from generation to generation and to several members of one family
  • hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • herod agrippa i — 10 bc–44 ad, king of Judaea (41–44), grandson of Herod (the Great). A friend of Caligula and Claudius, he imprisoned Saint Peter and executed Saint James
  • heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
  • hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
  • hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperlipidaemia — Alternative spelling of hyperlipidemia.
  • hyperlipoidemia — An abnormally high level of lipoids in the blood.
  • hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
  • hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
  • identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
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