13-letter words containing e, g, h, a, d
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
- 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.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- 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
- 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.
- ginger-haired — having ginger hair
- gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
- go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
- grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- great-hearted — having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
- h and l hinge — a surface-mounted hinge that when applied resembles H and L combined.
- hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hanging judge — sb who sentences criminals to execution
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- head gardener — the senior gardener who is in charge of a park, the garden of a large house, etc
- head register — the high register of the human voice.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
- hidden agenda — an often duplicitously undisclosed plan or motive.
- hold a grudge — be resentful
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- hydrargillite — gibbsite.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.