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

  • ethnopsychology — The scientific study of psychological concepts as they exist across different ethnic groups.
  • ethylene glycol — a colorless, viscous liquid, HOCH2CH2OH, used as an antifreeze, as a solvent, in resins, etc.
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • extension light — a light on the end of a length of cable
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fishing village — a village in which fishing is the main industry
  • flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flight engineer — a member of an aircraft crew responsible for the mechanical systems, fueling, and servicing of the craft.
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • gene technology — manipulation of DNA
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
  • george marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
  • get a handle on — that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose: The clue was a handle for solving the mystery.
  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • get the feel of — If you get the feel of something, for example a place or a new activity, you become familiar with it.
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
  • give the lie to — a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification. Antonyms: truth.
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • globe lightning — ball lightning.
  • gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
  • go through hell — If you go through hell, or if someone puts you through hell, you have a very difficult or unpleasant time.
  • go to the block — to be beheaded
  • go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • great-heartedly — in a great-hearted manner
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