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17-letter words containing h, e, a, l, r

  • general discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has served honorably but who has not met all the conditions of an honorable discharge.
  • generalized other — an individual's internalized impression of societal norms and expectations.
  • genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
  • geographical mile — nautical mile.
  • geothermal energy — Geothermal energy is energy from temperature differences inside the earth's crust.
  • gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
  • go for the collar — to go without a hit in a game
  • go the extra mile — make an exceptional effort
  • good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
  • grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • graphic equalizer — an equalizer in an audio system that is controlled by sliders that show graphically and correct the frequency response within the preset frequency range.
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
  • guerrilla theater — the presentation of short propaganda plays or skits, usually on sociopolitical themes, as war or repression, often on the streets or in other nontheater locations.
  • guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood
  • hairline fracture — a very fine crack in a bone
  • hairy-tailed mole — a blackish North American mole, Parascalops breweri, having a short, hairy tail.
  • half-breadth plan — a diagrammatic plan of one half of the hull of a vessel divided lengthwise amidships, showing water lines, stations, diagonals, and bow and buttock lines.
  • half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
  • hall of residence — Halls of residence are buildings with rooms or flats, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the term.
  • hammer and sickle — the emblem of the Soviet Union, adopted in 1923 and consisting of an insignia of a hammer with its handle across the blade of a sickle and a star above.
  • hammered dulcimer — dulcimer (sense 1)
  • hard rock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • hard-shelled clam — quahog
  • hard-shelled crab — a crab, esp. an edible sea crab, before it has shed its hard shell
  • hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
  • harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
  • have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
  • headline-grabbing — A headline-grabbing statement or activity is one that is intended to attract a lot of attention, especially from the media.
  • health care proxy — a legal document in which a person can appoint someone to make decisions about medical treatment in the event that he or she is no longer mentally competent or able to communicate.
  • heavy mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
  • heimlich maneuver — an emergency rescue procedure for application to someone choking on a foreign object, in which the rescuer places a fist between the victim's lower ribs or upper abdomen from behind and exerts sudden pressure in the form of thrusts of sufficient force to help eject the object from the windpipe.
  • helicopter parent — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • henry cabot lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
  • henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
  • hold one's breath — If you say that someone is holding their breath, you mean that they are waiting anxiously or excitedly for something to happen.
  • holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
  • hole in the heart — a defect of the heart in which there is an abnormal opening in any of the walls dividing the four heart chambers
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