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

  • 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
  • to a grinding halt — If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
  • 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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