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15-letter words containing h, o, d, l, g

  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • household goods — kitchenware and other utensils for use in the home
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
  • in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
  • 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.
  • monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • 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.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • philip the good — 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.
  • photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • 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.
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • snaggle toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snaggle-toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
  • the good people — fairies
  • to get ahold of — to manage to find, contact, or obtain someone or something
  • to grab hold of — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
  • withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
  • working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
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