15-letter words containing h, e, i
- frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
- free throw line — foul line (def 2).
- freedom fighter — a fighter for freedom, especially a person who battles against established forces of tyranny and dictatorship.
- freight charges — the price charged for conveying goods by freight
- french canadian — a descendant of the early French colonists of Canada.
- french dressing — salad dressing prepared chiefly from oil, vinegar, and seasonings.
- french guianese — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french knickers — women's wide-legged underpants
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- fresh-air fiend — a person who enjoys being outdoors or having good ventilation when indoors
- friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
- garage mechanic — sb employed to repair vehicles
- general holiday — a public holiday
- geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
- geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
- geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
- geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
- georg simon ohm — Georg Simon [gey-awrk zee-mawn] /geɪˈɔrk ˈzi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1787–1854, German physicist.
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- get it together — to achieve one's full potential, either generally as a person or in a particular field of activity
- get the picture — understand
- get the wind up — to become frightened
- get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
- giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
- gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
- give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
- give it the gun — to cause something to start or gain speed
- give sth a miss — If you give something a miss, you decide not to do it or not to go to it.
- give sth a rest — If someone tells you to give something a rest, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you.
- give the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- give the lie to — a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification. Antonyms: truth.
- give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
- glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
- gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- globe lightning — ball lightning.
- gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
- go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- good king henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
- good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.