15-letter words containing h, e, l, g, r
- northern lights — aurora borealis.
- old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- palaeogeography — the study of geographical features of the geological past
- palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
- personal growth — development as an individual
- phenylene group — any of three bivalent, isomeric groups having the formula –C 6 H 4 –, derived from benzene by the removal of two hydrogen atoms.
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- photoheliograph — an instrument for photographing the sun, consisting of a camera and a specially adapted telescope.
- phototelegraphy — facsimile (def 2a).
- phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- 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
- rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
- religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
- religious house — a convent or monastery.
- religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
- reverse english — Also called reverse side. Billiards. a spinning motion imparted to a cue ball in such a manner as to prevent it from moving in a certain direction. Compare running English.
- reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- richard gabriel — (person) (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
- rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- run the gantlet — to be punished by means of the gantlet
- running english — the giving of English or spin to the cue ball to enable it to bounce in the direction of a certain angle. Compare reverse English (def 1).
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- scheele's green — copper arsenite used as a pigment, especially in paints.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- she'll be right — that's all right; not to worry
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
- 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).
- shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
- skylight filter — a very slightly pink filter that absorbs ultraviolet light and reduces haze and excessive blueness
- social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- southern lights — aurora australis.
- spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets