15-letter words containing h, i, d, e, r
- hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
- hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
- haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
- hearing ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- hearing-ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heart condition — cardiac disorder
- heaviside layer — E layer.
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
- hereditarianism — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
- hereditarianist — a person who believes in the doctrine of hereditarianism
- heredo-familial — denoting a condition or disease that may be passed from generation to generation and to several members of one family
- hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- herod agrippa i — 10 bc–44 ad, king of Judaea (41–44), grandson of Herod (the Great). A friend of Caligula and Claudius, he imprisoned Saint Peter and executed Saint James
- heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
- heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
- 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
- high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
- hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- 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.
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
- hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
- hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
- hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperlipidaemia — Alternative spelling of hyperlipidemia.
- hyperlipoidemia — An abnormally high level of lipoids in the blood.
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
- hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.