15-letter words containing g, o, d, h, e
- holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
- homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
- horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- household goods — kitchenware and other utensils for use in the home
- hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
- in high dudgeon — If you say that someone is in high dudgeon, you are emphasizing that they are very angry or unhappy about something.
- in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
- old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
- orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
- orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- philip the good — 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- red riding hood — fairytale character
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- schooner-rigged — rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.
- second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).