15-letter words containing h, e, d, g, t, r
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- herod the great — ("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
- high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
- high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
- staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
- standing charge — fixed energy costs
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- the greater dog — the constellation Canis Major
- the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
- the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
- thought reading — mind reading.
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- wheatgerm bread — bread made with wheat germ
- with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.