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17-letter words containing d, i, g, h

  • i'd give anything — You use give in phrases such as I'd give anything, I'd give my right arm, and what wouldn't I give to emphasize that you are very eager to do or have something.
  • in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • in/with regard to — You can use with regard to or in regard to to indicate the subject that is being talked or written about.
  • indirect lighting — reflected or diffused light, used especially in interiors to avoid glare or shadows.
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • indistinguishably — In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
  • induction heating — a method of heating a conducting material, as metal in a furnace, by using electromagnetic induction to establish a current in the material.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • lady of the night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • lady-of-the-night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • light in the head — dizzy; giddy
  • loggerhead shrike — a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
  • mechanical digger — a machine used for excavation
  • medicochirurgical — pertaining to medicine and surgery.
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • nightshade family — the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
  • north frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
  • orifice discharge — Orifice discharge is a model for calculating how quickly a fluid will come out of a punctured vessel or pipe.
  • overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • parathyroid gland — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
  • prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • psychodiagnostics — the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • receding forehead — a forehead which slopes backwards
  • receding hairline — hair that is thinning at the front
  • richard arkwright — Sir Richard, 1732–92, English inventor of the spinning jenny.
  • right in the head — sane
  • sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
  • sheltered housing — accommodation designed esp for the elderly or infirm consisting of a group of individual premises, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
  • shipping industry — the industry concerned with transporting freight, esp by ship
  • shooting incident — an incident involving guns
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • spruce gall aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
  • the humber bridge — a single-span suspension bridge (1981) that crosses the Humber, with a main span of 1410 m (4626 ft)
  • the right side of — in favour with
  • third-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
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