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

  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • legion of honor — a French order of distinction instituted in 1802 by Napoleon with membership being granted for meritorious civil or military services.
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • light artillery — guns and howitzers of small caliber.
  • light flyweight — an amateur boxer weighing not more than 48 kg (106 pounds)
  • light-sensitive — (of a surface) having a photoelectric property, such as the ability to generate a current, change its electrical resistance, etc, when exposed to light
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
  • lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
  • like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
  • lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • machine gunning — the act of using a machine gun
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • mailing machine — a machine that prepares mail for sending, as by addressing, stamping, weighing, etc.
  • make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
  • make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
  • megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
  • microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
  • mid-heavyweight — a professional wrestler weighing 199–209 pounds (91–95 kg)
  • might-have-been — that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
  • milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
  • milling machine — a machine tool for rotating a cutter (milling cutter) to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
  • monthly meeting — (often initial capital letters) a district unit of local congregations of the Society of Friends.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • negative charge — a charge that has more electrons than protons and has a lower electrical potential
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • neo-hegelianism — Hegelianism as modified by various philosophers of the latter half of the 19th century.
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • new high german — the High German language since c1500.
  • next to nothing — very little
  • niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
  • night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
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