14-letter words containing h, i, g, e, r
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
- grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- heresiographer — a person who writes about heresy
- hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
- herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
- herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
- herring choker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
- heterographies — Plural form of heterography.
- heterozygosity — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
- hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
- hierographical — hierographic
- high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
- high priestess — the female leader of a tribe, religion, or movement; a female high priest.
- highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
- highly charged — electrical
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- housing market — property trade
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hyperenergetic — extremely or excessively energetic
- hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.