15-letter words containing h, i, g, t, d, e
- high definition — a system for screen display of images that are sharper and more detailed than normal, having many more than the standard number of scanning lines per frame: Most TV shows are available in high definition. Abbreviation: HD. See also high-definition television.
- high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
- high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
- high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
- highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
- in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
- indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
- 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.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- 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.
- lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- mid-heavyweight — a professional wrestler weighing 199–209 pounds (91–95 kg)
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- 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.
- nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
- one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
- philip the good — 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- standing charge — fixed energy costs
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
- the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
- the-city-of-god — Latin De Civitate Dei. a work in 22 books (a.d. 413–26) by St. Augustine of Hippo, expounding an early Christian view of society and history.
- thought reading — mind reading.
- tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- undistinguished — having no distinguishing marks or features.
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.