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16-letter words containing h, a, n, d, g, r

  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • hearing-impaired — having reduced or deficient hearing ability; hard-of-hearing: special programs for hearing-impaired persons.
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
  • hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
  • irrigation ditch — trench supplying land with water
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • left-hand dagger — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
  • lettre de change — bill of exchange.
  • lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • marshalling yard — a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • nightingale ward — a long hospital ward with beds on either side and the nurses' station in the middle
  • no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
  • on the downgrade — waning in importance, popularity, health, etc
  • peegee hydrangea — a widely cultivated hydrangea, Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, having pyramidal clusters of persistent flowers that are white on opening and turn pinkish as they mature.
  • phonocardiograph — an instrument for graphically recording the sound of the heartbeat.
  • polyhedral angle — a configuration consisting of the lateral faces of a polyhedron around one of its vertices. The portion of a pyramid including one of its points is such a configuration.
  • radio-phonograph — a radio and phonograph combined in one unit and sharing some components, as the amplifier and speaker(s)
  • ranelagh gardens — a public garden in Chelsea opened in 1742: a centre for members of fashionable society to meet and promenade. The gardens were closed in 1804
  • right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
  • strain hardening — a process in which a metal is permanently deformed in order to increase its resistance to further deformation
  • the orange order — a society founded in Ireland (1795) to uphold the Protestant religion, the Protestant dynasty, and the Protestant constitution
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • withdrawing room — a room to withdraw or retire to; drawing room.
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