15-letter words containing h, i, r, a, g, e
- graphic granite — a pegmatite that has crystals of gray quartz imbedded in white or pink microcline in such a manner that they resemble cuneiform writing.
- grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- great sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 1).
- great white way — the theater district along Broadway, near Times Square in New York City.
- great-sanhedrin — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- gregorian chant — the plain song or cantus firmus used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.
- group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
- haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
- hang in (there) — to hold steadfast; persevere
- hanging glacier — a glacier situated on a shelf above a valley or another glacier; it may be joined to the lower level by an icefall or separate from it
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
- have a right to — be entitled to
- hearing ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- hearing-ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
- height-to-paper — the standard height of type, measured from the foot to the face, in the U.S. 0.918 of an inch (2.33 cm).
- heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
- hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
- heritage centre — a museum that houses exhibits describing the culture and history of a particular place and its inhabitants
- herod agrippa i — 10 bc–44 ad, king of Judaea (41–44), grandson of Herod (the Great). A friend of Caligula and Claudius, he imprisoned Saint Peter and executed Saint James
- hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
- high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
- highway robbery — robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.
- historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
- 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.
- honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
- hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
- inguinal hernia — a common type of hernia in which a loop of the intestine protrudes directly through a weak area of the abdominal wall in the groin region.
- 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.
- interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- interchangement — the act of interchanging
- interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.