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18-letter words containing e, g, h, a, d

  • hegelian dialectic — an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis) the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis)
  • hermaphrodite brig — a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the mainmast.
  • high-grade mineral — a mineral fulfilling certain conditions as regards purity or other physical properties
  • higher-order macro — A means of expressing certain higher-order functions in a first order language. Proposed by Phil Wadler. Higher-order macros cannot be recursive at the top level but they may contain recursive definitions. E.g. See partial evaluation.
  • house of delegates — the lower house of the General Assembly in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.
  • impedance matching — the technique of choosing or adjusting electric circuits and components so that the impedance of the load is equal to the internal impedance of the power source, thereby optimizing the power transfer from source to load.
  • incidental charges — Incidental charges are costs of items and services that are not part of the main bill.
  • industrial hygiene — the science that assesses, controls, and prevents occupational factors or sources of stress in the workplace that may significantly affect the health and well-being of employees or of the community in general
  • knight of the road — a tramp
  • laugh like a drain — to laugh loudly and coarsely
  • light displacement — the weight of a ship with all its permanent equipment, excluding the weight of cargo, persons, ballast, dunnage, and fuel, but usually including the weight of permanent ballast and water used to operate steam machinery.
  • materials handling — the loading, unloading, and movement of goods, as within a factory or warehouse, especially by the aid of mechanical devices.
  • mechanical drawing — drawing, as of machinery, done with the aid of rulers, scales, compasses, etc.
  • medium of exchange — anything generally accepted as representing a standard of value and exchangeable for goods or services.
  • middle high german — the High German language of the period 1100–1500. Abbreviation: MHG.
  • neighborhood watch — a neighborhood surveillance program or group in which residents keep watch over one another's houses, patrol the streets, etc., in an attempt to prevent crime.
  • netherlands guiana — a former name of Suriname.
  • norwegian elkhound — one of a breed of dogs having a short, compact body, short, pointed ears, and a thick, gray coat, raised originally in Norway for hunting elk and other game.
  • oak-leaf hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea quercifolia, of the southeastern U.S., having lobed leaves and pyramidal clusters of white flowers.
  • on the danger list — critically ill in hospital
  • on the ragged edge — precariously close to loss of self-control, mental stability, etc.
  • palm beach gardens — a city in SE Florida, near North Palm Beach.
  • paraurethral gland — any of a group of vestigial glands located in the posterior wall of the urethra in women.
  • positively charged — having a positive charge
  • prepare the ground — make conditions ready
  • propaganda machine — the group of people, publications, etc, such as of a government, country etc, responsible for the organized dissemination of information, allegations, etc, to assist or damage the cause of a government, movement, etc
  • put heads together — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • rear its ugly head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • registered charity — official aid organization
  • regular hexahedron — a solid cube with six square faces
  • richard p. gabriel — Richard Gabriel
  • runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
  • sign of the zodiac — one of the twelve constellations along the path of the ecliptic.
  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • sow dragon's teeth — to take some action that is intended to prevent strife or trouble but that actually brings it about
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
  • three-day eventing — participation in a three day equestrian competition consisting of dressage, cross-country jumping, and stadium jumping
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
  • watchdog committee — a committee responsible for monitoring standards of behaviour
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