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15-letter words containing h, i, g, l, o

  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demythologizing — Present participle of demythologize.
  • deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • dogtooth violet — Also called adder's-tongue, trout lily. any of several North American lilies of the genus Erythronium, having nodding flowers and usually mottled leaves.
  • downhill skiing — the sport of skiing down a slope, usually making turns and various maneuvers.
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • eddystone light — lighthouse on dangerous rocks (Eddystone Rocks) just off the SE coast of Cornwall, in the English Channel
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
  • ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • extension light — a light on the end of a length of cable
  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • fight-or-flight — denoting instinctive response
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • flight shooting — competitive shooting for distance only.
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • give the lie to — a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification. Antonyms: truth.
  • glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • globe lightning — ball lightning.
  • glossographical — relating to glossography
  • gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
  • go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
  • grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
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