13-letter words containing h, i, n, d, g
- highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
- hinged girder — a type of girder with a hinge, used in bridge building
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- honey gilding — gilding of ceramics with a mixture of gold leaf and honey, later fired to fix the gold.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
- hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenizing — Present participle of hydrogenize.
- hydronitrogen — a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and nitrogen.
- i-head engine — an internal-combustion engine with both intake and exhaust valves placed directly above the piston.
- in good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
- in good hands — in protective care
- in good shape — person: fit, healthy
- in mid-flight — during a flight; whilst airborne
- indexing head — a circular plate mounted to rotate on its centre, inscribed with concentric circles, each accurately divided, the dimensions being marked by drilled holes. The plate can be moved round with a workpiece to facilitate the accurate location of holes or other machining operations on the workpiece
- indira gandhi — Indira [in-deer-uh] /ɪnˈdɪər ə/ (Show IPA), 1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- l-head engine — an internal-combustion engine having the intake and exhaust valves arranged in a chamber along one side of the pistons.
- launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
- light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
- magnetic head — head (def 33).
- mannheim gold — a brass alloy used to imitate gold; red brass.
- marching band — musical group that parades
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
- much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- neighboorhood — Alternative spelling of neighbourhood.
- neighborhoods — Plural form of neighborhood.
- neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
- ngo dinh diem — 1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.