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15-letter words containing d, i, n, g

  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • hawaiian pidgin — an English-based creole widely spoken in Hawaii.
  • hearing ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • hearing-ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • high and mighty — self-important, arrogant
  • high definition — a system for screen display of images that are sharper and more detailed than normal, having many more than the standard number of scanning lines per frame: Most TV shows are available in high definition. Abbreviation: HD. See also high-definition television.
  • high-and-mighty — haughty; arrogant.
  • high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
  • high-dependency — needing or providing a more than usually high level of healthcare
  • high-handedness — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
  • high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
  • highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
  • hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
  • hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
  • immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
  • in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • in good spirits — cheerful
  • in high dudgeon — If you say that someone is in high dudgeon, you are emphasizing that they are very angry or unhappy about something.
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in-suite dining — In-suite dining in a hotel is when guests eat meals in their rooms.
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
  • indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
  • individualising — Present participle of individualise.
  • individualizing — Present participle of individualize.
  • industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
  • industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
  • indy car racing — a US form of professional motor racing around banked oval tracks
  • infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
  • insider dealing — dealing in company securities on a recognized stock exchange, with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss, by a person who has confidential information about the securities that, if generally known, would affect their price. Its practice by those connected with a company is illegal
  • insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
  • interior design — the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
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