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17-letter words containing h, i, e, d

  • front-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted through the front wheels only.
  • further education — adult education.
  • 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.
  • george whitefield — George, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
  • get into bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • give the go-ahead — authorize sb to do sth
  • give to the world — to publish
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
  • green peach aphid — an aphid, Myzus persicae, that is a pest of many fruit trees, ornamentals, and vegetables and a vector of certain viral plant diseases.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • grid merchandiser — A grid merchandiser is a lightweight, free-standing, flexible fixture made up of moveable grids of wire and used by retailers can display large volumes of merchandise in a small space.
  • guadalupe hidalgo — a city in the Federal District of Mexico: famous shrine; peace treaty 1848.
  • haemorrhoidectomy — surgical removal of haemorrhoids
  • hairy-tailed mole — a blackish North American mole, Parascalops breweri, having a short, hairy tail.
  • haitian solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Solenodon paradoxus, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
  • hall of residence — Halls of residence are buildings with rooms or flats, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the term.
  • hammer and sickle — the emblem of the Soviet Union, adopted in 1923 and consisting of an insignia of a hammer with its handle across the blade of a sickle and a star above.
  • hammered dulcimer — dulcimer (sense 1)
  • handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
  • hanging indention — an indention of uniform length at the beginning of each line except the first, which is flush left and of full width.
  • hardware register — (hardware, system administration)   (Or "hardware log") A list of all hardware, both internal and external, that is attached to a particular computer.
  • head of the river — any of various annual rowing regattas held on particular rivers
  • headline-grabbing — A headline-grabbing statement or activity is one that is intended to attract a lot of attention, especially from the media.
  • heptanedioic acid — pimelic acid.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
  • hexacosanoic acid — cerotic acid.
  • hexadecanoic acid — palmitic acid.
  • higgledy-piggledy — in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner; helter-skelter.
  • high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
  • high-heeled shoes — shoes having high, rather than flat, heels
  • hillel foundation — a national organization, founded in 1924 by the B'nai B'rith, that institutes and administers programs designed to enrich the religious, cultural, and social life of Jewish college students.
  • historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
  • hit over the head — to strike on the head
  • hit the headlines — be prominently featured in the news
  • hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
  • hodgkin's disease — a type of cancer characterized by progressive chronic inflammation and enlargement of the lymph nodes of the neck, armpit, groin, and mesentery, by enlargement of the spleen and occasionally of the liver and the kidneys, and by lymphoid infiltration along the blood vessels.
  • holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
  • holistic medicine — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
  • hollandaise sauce — a sauce of egg yolks, butter, lemon juice, and seasonings.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • homogentisic acid — an intermediate compound in the metabolism of tyrosine and of phenylalanine, found in excess in the blood and urine of persons affected with alkaptonuria.
  • hornblende schist — a variety of schist containing needles of hornblende that lie in parallel planes.
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