17-letter words containing h, g, e
- fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
- freight forwarder — a person or firm that arranges to pick up or deliver goods on instructions of a shipper or a consignee from or to a point by various necessary conveyances and common carriers.
- freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
- functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
- gaucher's disease — a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism that causes spleen and liver enlargement, abnormal fragility and pain of the bones, and progressive neurologic disturbances, leading to early death.
- 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.
- george washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- george whitefield — George, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
- 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
- get (right) on it — to begin doing a task (immediately)
- get in on the act — If you get in on the act, you take part in or take advantage of something that was started by someone else.
- get in one's hair — to annoy one
- get into bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- get off the grass — an exclamation of disbelief
- get the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- gethsemane cheese — a semisoft, mild, yellow cheese from whole milk, made by Trappist monks.
- give someone hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- give the go-ahead — authorize sb to do sth
- give to the world — to publish
- give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
- glory-of-the-snow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Chionodoxa, of the lily family, native to the Old World, having showy, blue, white, or pink flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
- gnash one's teeth — If you say that someone is gnashing their teeth, you mean they are angry or frustrated about something.
- go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
- go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
- go down the drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- go for the collar — to go without a hit in a game
- go for the doctor — to make a great effort or move very fast, esp in a horse race
- go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
- go on the rampage — If people go on the rampage, they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
- go out of the way — to inconvenience oneself; do something that one would not ordinarily do, or that requires extra or deliberate effort or trouble
- go the extra mile — make an exceptional effort
- go to the country — If a head of government or a government goes to the country, they hold a general election.
- going to the dogs — If you say that something is going to the dogs, you mean that it is becoming weaker and worse in quality.
- golden hand-shake — a special incentive, as generous severance pay, given to an older employee as an inducement to elect early retirement.
- good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
- grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.
- 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 grey shrike — the bird Lanius excubitor
- 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 white heron — a large white heron, Ardea occidentalis, of Florida and the Florida Keys.