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15-letter words containing h, o, d, i, n, g

  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • 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.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
  • hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hydrofracturing — 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.
  • hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
  • in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • in high dudgeon — If you say that someone is in high dudgeon, you are emphasizing that they are very angry or unhappy about something.
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • mind how you go — Some people say 'Mind how you go' when they are saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.
  • mohandas 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).
  • nizhni novgorod — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, E of Moscow, on the Volga River.
  • nizhny novgorod — city in central European Russia, at the Volga & Oka rivers: pop. 1,438,000
  • non-diminishing — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • nonwithstanding — Misspelling of notwithstanding.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • notwithstanding — in spite of; without being opposed or prevented by: Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty. She went to the game anyway, doctor's orders notwithstanding.
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
  • orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • photoconducting — of or relating to photoconduction
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • red riding hood — fairytale character
  • right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • schooner-rigged — rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.
  • scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
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