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15-letter words containing h, i, g, e

  • hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
  • hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
  • hyper-energetic — possessing or exhibiting energy, especially in abundance; vigorous: an energetic leader.
  • hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
  • hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
  • if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
  • in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
  • in high dudgeon — If you say that someone is in high dudgeon, you are emphasizing that they are very angry or unhappy about something.
  • in keeping with — in conformity or accord with
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in the eighties — between 80–89 degrees in temperature
  • in the light of — in view of, given
  • in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • in the negative — by saying no
  • indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
  • inguinal hernia — a common type of hernia in which a loop of the intestine protrudes directly through a weak area of the abdominal wall in the groin region.
  • ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
  • inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
  • insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangement — the act of interchanging
  • interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • it is high time — If you say that it is high time that something happened or was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner.
  • john j pershing — John Joseph ("Blackjack") 1860–1948, U.S. general: commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
  • kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
  • knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
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