15-letter words containing d, r, e, a, h
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
- foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
- founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
- french canadian — a descendant of the early French colonists of Canada.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- fresh-air fiend — a person who enjoys being outdoors or having good ventilation when indoors
- freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
- friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
- general holiday — a public holiday
- geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
- german shepherd — one of a breed of large shepherd dogs having a coat ranging in color from gray to brindled, black-and-tan, or black, used especially in police work and as a guide for the blind.
- gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
- graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
- great sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 1).
- great-heartedly — in a great-hearted manner
- great-sanhedrin — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- greenland whale — an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat
- h g edgar degas — Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- hale and hearty — in good health
- half-remembered — (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- hard disk drive — (storage) (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- hard row to hoe — a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
- hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
- hard-shell clam — quahog.
- hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- hardheartedness — The state of being hardhearted.
- hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
- hardware dealer — a person or shop who deals in metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
- hare and hounds — an outdoor game in which certain players, the hares, start off in advance on a long run, scattering small pieces of paper, called the scent, with the other players, the hounds, following the trail so marked in an effort to catch the hares before they reach a designated point.
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
- have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against