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15-letter words containing h, e, l, g, r

  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the everlasting — God
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
  • thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
  • turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unrelinquishing — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
  • wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
  • xerographically — In a xerographic way; by xerography.
  • zoogeographical — Pertaining to zoogeography.
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