13-letter words containing h, o, d, l, g
- hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
- honey gilding — gilding of ceramics with a mixture of gold leaf and honey, later fired to fix the gold.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- household god — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
- hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
- ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
- leather goods — products made of animal skin
- legal holiday — a public holiday established by law, during which certain work, government business, etc., is restricted.
- 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.
- mannheim gold — a brass alloy used to imitate gold; red brass.
- methodologies — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- methodologist — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology
- orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- q-methodology — a statistical methodology used by psychologists to identify alternative world-views, opinions, interpretations, etc, in terms of statistically independent patterns of response recognized by clustering together individuals whose orderings of items, typically attitude statements, are similar
- r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
- shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
- thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
- tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
- underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
- walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
- wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.