14-letter words containing e, d, g, h
- dining kitchen — a room where meals are eaten and prepared
- directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
- discharge head — The discharge head is the pressure at the discharge of a pump, measured as a height.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
- do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
- drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
- drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
- eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
- english saddle — a lightweight saddle with a low cantle and pommel and no horn, designed to place the rider's weight forward onto the withers
- etching needle — a type of needle used to etch patterns or designs on printing plates
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- finished goods — Finished goods are goods that have completed the manufacturing process, but have not yet been sold.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
- get the needle — to feel dislike, distaste, nervousness, or annoyance (for)
- get with child — to make pregnant
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
- glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
- go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
- go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- go to the dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.