14-letter words containing a, l, d, g, h
- highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
- highland fling — fling (def 17).
- highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
- highly charged — electrical
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hydrographical — Hydrographic.
- hydrologically — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- in a bad light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
- landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
- language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
- lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
- marsh marigold — a yellow-flowered plant, Caltha palustris, of the buttercup family, growing in marshes and meadows; cowslip.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- methodological — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- nonhalogenated — not containing halogen
- overhead light — a light which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
- radiographical — the production of radiographs.
- radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- sailing dinghy — a small boat or dinghy with a single mast, used esp for recreational sailing
- sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
- skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
- thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
- threaded glass — glass decorated with a pattern produced by variegated glass filaments.
- twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- voroshilovgrad — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
- zodiacal light — a luminous tract in the sky, seen in the west after sunset or in the east before sunrise and thought to be the light reflected from a cloud of meteoric matter revolving round the sun.