14-letter words containing d, i, g, h
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
- half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- height of land — a watershed
- hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
- high-card pool — red dog.
- highhandedness — The property of being highhanded.
- 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.
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- hydrographical — Hydrographic.
- hydrologically — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.
- hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
- hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
- in a bad light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- in this regard — on this point
- iris diaphragm — a composite diaphragm with a central aperture readily adjustable for size, used to regulate the amount of light admitted to a lens or optical system.
- island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
- landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
- light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
- light-coloured — having a light colour
- light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
- lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
- mahatma gandhi — Indira [in-deer-uh] /ɪnˈdɪər ə/ (Show IPA), 1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- 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.