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13-letter words containing h, i, g, d, e

  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
  • drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
  • english daisy — a small perennial plant (Bellis perennis) of the composite family, having single stalked heads with white or pinkish ray flowers
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
  • geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
  • gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • gild the lily — to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance.
  • ginger-haired — having ginger hair
  • gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
  • gold chloride — a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
  • grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • h and l hinge — a surface-mounted hinge that when applied resembles H and L combined.
  • hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
  • half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hanging judge — sb who sentences criminals to execution
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • head register — the high register of the human voice.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
  • hedge trimmer — garden tool for cutting hedges
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
  • hidden agenda — an often duplicitously undisclosed plan or motive.
  • high fidelity — sound reproduction over the full range of audible frequencies with very little distortion of the original signal.
  • high old time — an enjoyable and exciting time
  • high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
  • high-spending — spending more than is necessary or appropriate
  • high-spirited — characterized by energetic enthusiasm, elation, vivacity, etc.
  • higher degree — a degree taken after your first undergraduate degree
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