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

  • english channel — waterway between England and France
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • 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.
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • extension light — a light on the end of a length of cable
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • fight city hall — to take up the apparently futile fight against petty or impersonal bureaucratic authority
  • fight windmills — to fight imaginary evils or opponents
  • fight-or-flight — denoting instinctive response
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fishing village — a village in which fishing is the main industry
  • flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flashlight fish — any of several fishes, especially Photoblepharon palpebratus, inhabiting deep, dark waters and having light organs that can be closed with a lid.
  • flight engineer — a member of an aircraft crew responsible for the mechanical systems, fueling, and servicing of the craft.
  • 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 sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • 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
  • flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • 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 it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
  • give the lie to — a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification. Antonyms: truth.
  • glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • 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.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • 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
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