15-letter words containing d, i, g, h, t
- one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
- philip the good — 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.
- photoconducting — of or relating to photoconduction
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
- radioautography — autoradiography.
- radiophotograph — a photograph or other image transmitted by radio.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- ramrod straight — having a very straight figure
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
- standing charge — fixed energy costs
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
- the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
- the-city-of-god — Latin De Civitate Dei. a work in 22 books (a.d. 413–26) by St. Augustine of Hippo, expounding an early Christian view of society and history.
- thought reading — mind reading.
- tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- undistinguished — having no distinguishing marks or features.
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.