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15-letter words containing a, g

  • hanging offence — a crime that is punishable by hanging
  • hapax legomenon — a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature.
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • have a go at sb — If someone has a go at you, they criticize you, often in a way that you feel is unfair.
  • have a good day — pleasantry
  • have a right to — be entitled to
  • have an edge on — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
  • have got it bad — to be infatuated
  • have had enough — be weary, exasperated
  • have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
  • have nothing on — be naked
  • hawaiian guitar — a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.
  • hawaiian pidgin — an English-based creole widely spoken in Hawaii.
  • 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-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heating element — a coil or other arrangement of wire in which heat is produced by an electric current
  • heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • height-to-paper — the standard height of type, measured from the foot to the face, in the U.S. 0.918 of an inch (2.33 cm).
  • heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
  • hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
  • hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
  • heritage centre — a museum that houses exhibits describing the culture and history of a particular place and its inhabitants
  • 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
  • herod the great — ("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
  • hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
  • high and mighty — self-important, arrogant
  • high-and-mighty — haughty; arrogant.
  • high-angle shot — a shot taken from a camera positioned above the action
  • high-handedness — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
  • high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
  • highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
  • highway robbery — robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.
  • histopathologic — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
  • historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
  • historiographic — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • 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.
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
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