16-letter words containing g, e, h, r
- christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
- chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
- church suffering — the souls in purgatory.
- chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
- cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
- clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
- corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
- counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
- counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
- creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- d-glyceraldehyde — an isomer of glyceraldehyde in which the OH group is on the right side of the asymmetric carbon atom.
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
- dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
- debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
- dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
- dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
- digital research — (company) The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
- disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
- district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
- drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
- draught excluder — a device (such as a strip of wood, or a long cylindrical cushion) placed at the bottom of a door to keep out draughts
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
- earth-shattering — earthshaking.
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
- eighteen-wheeler — a tractor-trailer having eighteen wheels
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
- engineer's chain — a unit of length equal to 100 feet
- english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
- entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- extreme fighting — a combat sport incorporating techniques from a range of martial arts, with little if any regulation of the types of blows permissible
- fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
- false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
- fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
- father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
- feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
- feel the draught — to be short of money
- fifth-generation — denoting developments in computer design to produce machines with artificial intelligence
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).