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15-letter words containing e, d, g, h

  • 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.
  • rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
  • rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • schooner-rigged — rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.
  • second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • 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
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
  • single-handedly — in a single-handed manner; single-handed.
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • snaggle toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snaggle-toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • swedish massage — a massage employing techniques of manipulation and muscular exercise systematized in Sweden in the 19th century.
  • take the pledge — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
  • the common good — If you do something for the common good, you do it for the benefit or advantage of everyone.
  • the good people — fairies
  • the greater dog — the constellation Canis Major
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • the-city-of-god — Latin De Civitate Dei. a work in 22 books (a.d. 413–26) by St. Augustine of Hippo, expounding an early Christian view of society and history.
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
  • to change hands — When something changes hands, its ownership changes, usually because it is sold to someone else.
  • to get ahold of — to manage to find, contact, or obtain someone or something
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • undistinguished — having no distinguishing marks or features.
  • vending machine — a coin-operated machine for selling small articles, beverages, etc.
  • vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
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