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16-letter words containing d, i, g, h, t

  • hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
  • hamming distance — (data)   The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
  • high-speed steel — an especially hard, heat-resistant steel for use in lathe tools and for other applications involving high friction and wear.
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • hot cold-working — metalworking at considerable heat but below the temperature at which the metal recrystallizes: a form of cold-working.
  • household knight — bachelor (def 5).
  • household-knight — an unmarried man.
  • hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
  • hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
  • irrigation ditch — trench supplying land with water
  • light adaptation — the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).
  • lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • live on the edge — take risks
  • living daylights — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • nightingale ward — a long hospital ward with beds on either side and the nurses' station in the middle
  • north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
  • phagocytic index — the average number of bacteria ingested per phagocyte in an incubated mixture of bacteria, phagocytes, and blood serum: used in determining the opsonic index.
  • point de hongrie — flame stitch.
  • registered share — a stock registered to the owner's name
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
  • rising diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of two apparent vocalic elements is of lesser stress or sonority than the second, as the (wä) in guava [gwah-vuh] /ˈgwɑ və/ (Show IPA).
  • saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
  • static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
  • strain hardening — a process in which a metal is permanently deformed in order to increase its resistance to further deformation
  • stroboradiograph — a stroboscopic radiograph.
  • student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
  • thanksgiving day — a national holiday celebrated as a day of feasting and giving thanks for divine favors or goodness, observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the U.S. and in Canada on the second Monday of October.
  • the herring-pond — the Atlantic Ocean
  • the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
  • washington, d. c — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • washington, d.c. — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • weighted average — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • with a high hand — with arrogance; in an arbitrary or dictatorial manner
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