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16-letter words containing h, i, n, d, g

  • gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • gilding the lily — If you say that someone is gilding the lily, you mean that they are spoiling something that is already beautiful or perfect by trying to improve it or by praising it too highly.
  • glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
  • good-for-nothing — worthless; of no use.
  • graphic designer — person: commercial artist
  • great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
  • gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
  • hamming distance — (data)   The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
  • hamming, richard — Richard Hamming
  • handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
  • hard rock mining — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
  • hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • hearing-impaired — having reduced or deficient hearing ability; hard-of-hearing: special programs for hearing-impaired persons.
  • herringbone bond — a brickwork bond in which the exposed brickwork is bonded to the heart of the wall by concealed courses of bricks laid diagonally to the faces of the wall in a herringbone pattern, with the end of each brick butting against the side of the adjoining brick; a form of raking bond.
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • homogenized milk — milk in which the fat globules are evenly distributed
  • honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • hot cold-working — metalworking at considerable heat but below the temperature at which the metal recrystallizes: a form of cold-working.
  • household knight — bachelor (def 5).
  • household-knight — an unmarried man.
  • hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
  • hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
  • hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
  • hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
  • hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
  • irrigation ditch — trench supplying land with water
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • light adaptation — the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).
  • lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • live on the edge — take risks
  • living daylights — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
  • mahmud of ghazni — a.d. 971?–1030, Muslim Amir of Ghazni 997–1030.
  • marshalling yard — a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
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