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

  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
  • 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.
  • graphic display — the way in which line drawings and text are displayed
  • graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  • graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
  • great sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 1).
  • great-heartedly — in a great-hearted manner
  • 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.
  • greenland whale — an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat
  • grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
  • guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • h g edgar degas — Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • hale and hearty — in good health
  • half-remembered — (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
  • hard disk drive — (storage)   (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
  • hard mint candy — a hardened mint-flavoured sweet
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • hard row to hoe — a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • hard-shell clam — quahog.
  • hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
  • hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
  • hardheartedness — The state of being hardhearted.
  • 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
  • hardware dealer — a person or shop who deals in metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
  • hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
  • hare and hounds — an outdoor game in which certain players, the hares, start off in advance on a long run, scattering small pieces of paper, called the scent, with the other players, the hounds, following the trail so marked in an effort to catch the hares before they reach a designated point.
  • harun al-rashid — a.d. 764?–809, caliph of Baghdad 786–809: one of the greatest Abbasids, he was made almost a legendary hero in the Arabian Nights.
  • harun ar-rashid — a.d. 764?-809; caliph of Baghdad (786-809): given popular fame as a hero of The Arabian Nights
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
  • 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
  • hazard analysis — risk assessment
  • hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
  • head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • 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
  • heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
  • hearth and home — domestic realm
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