15-letter words containing e, d, g, h, i
- 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
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
- 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.
- indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
- 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.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
- lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- mid-heavyweight — a professional wrestler weighing 199–209 pounds (91–95 kg)
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
- old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
- orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- philip the good — 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- red riding hood — fairytale character
- richard gabriel — (person) (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
- riding breeches — calf-length trousers of whipcord or other durable fabric, flaring at the sides of the thighs and fitting snugly at and below the knees, worn with riding boots for horseback riding, hunting, etc.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- schooner-rigged — rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.
- seeding machine — a machine for sowing seeds
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
- shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof