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15-letter words containing h, i, n, d, e, r

  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • hereditarianism — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
  • hereditarianist — a person who believes in the doctrine of hereditarianism
  • heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
  • high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
  • hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • 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.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
  • identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
  • identity theory — a form of materialism which holds mental states to be identical with certain states of the brain and so to have no separate existence, but regards this identity as contingent so that mentalistic and physicalistic language are not held to be synonymous
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • indirect speech — Indirect speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words: for example, 'They said you didn't like it', 'I asked him what his plans were', and 'Citizens complained about the smoke'.
  • 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
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • jewish calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by the Jews, in which time is reckoned from 3761 bc: regarded as the year of the Creation. The months, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar, have either 29 or 30 days. Originally a new month was declared when the new moon was sighted in Jerusalem, but when this became impossible, a complex formula was devised to keep Rosh Chodesh near to the new moon. In addition, to keep the harvest festivals in the right seasons, there is a Metonic cycle of 14 years, in five of which an additional month is added after Shevat. The year according to biblical reckoning begins with Nisan, and the civil year begins with Tishri; the years are numbered from Tishri
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • leonid brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich [ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
  • maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
  • nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
  • ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
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