13-letter words containing e, d, g, h
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- dermatography — a treatise or writing concerning the skin
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- diphthongized — Simple past tense and past participle of diphthongize.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
- distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- dizzy heights — If you say that someone has reached the dizzy heights of something, you are emphasizing that they have reached a very high level by achieving it.
- doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- dragon's head — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
- driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
- drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- eggheadedness — the state of being an egghead
- eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
- english daisy — a small perennial plant (Bellis perennis) of the composite family, having single stalked heads with white or pinkish ray flowers
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- flashed glass — clear glass flashed with a thin layer of colored glass or a coating of metallic oxide.
- flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
- flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
- garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
- garden shears — shears used for gardening
- gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
- geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
- gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
- ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
- giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
- gild the lily — to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance.