14-letter words containing d, r, e, g
- guido d'arezzo — (Guido Aretinus"Fra Guittone") c995–1049? Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- hedgehog gourd — a prickly-stemmed Arabian vine, Cucumis dipsaceus, of the gourd family, having burlike, bristly fruit.
- 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.
- hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
- highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
- highly charged — electrical
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- honours degree — a degree at honours level
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- 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.
- imparidigitate — having an odd number of fingers on each limb
- in this regard — on this point
- index register — (processor) A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
- indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
- integrated day — teaching that is organized around themes, rather than separate subjects
- interdepending — Present participle of interdepend.
- interdigitated — Simple past tense and past participle of interdigitate.
- intergradation — the act or process of intergrading or the state of being intergraded.
- intermediating — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
- kendal (green) — a coarse, green woolen cloth
- kierkegaardian — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy or religious views of Kierkegaard.
- kindergardener — Misspelling of kindergartner.
- kindergartener — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
- kissing bridge — a covered bridge.
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
- landing-waiter — landwaiter.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam