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14-letter words containing g, e, h, l

  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
  • cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
  • complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • cytotechnology — the microscopic analysis of cells for the early detection of abnormalities and diagnosis of diseases such as cancer
  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dcc technology — DCC technology uses a catalytic process to convert heavy hydrocarbons into light olefins.
  • delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
  • demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
  • demythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologize.
  • demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
  • dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
  • dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • 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.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • eggshell white — a yellowish white colour
  • ego psychology — the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder
  • eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
  • election night — the evening when the votes from an election are being counted
  • electric light — a light powered by electricity
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
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