17-letter words containing h, r, d, i, a, g
- heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
- hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
- hiring and firing — the authority to hire or fire staff, or the act of doing this
- holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
- humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
- hydrogasification — a high-temperature, high-pressure process for producing liquid or gaseous fuels from fine particles of coal and hydrogen gas
- hypophrygian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from B to B, with the final on E.
- in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
- in the background — behind the focus of attention
- in/with regard to — You can use with regard to or in regard to to indicate the subject that is being talked or written about.
- integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
- isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
- italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
- loggerhead shrike — a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
- mechanical digger — a machine used for excavation
- medicochirurgical — pertaining to medicine and surgery.
- orifice discharge — Orifice discharge is a model for calculating how quickly a fluid will come out of a punctured vessel or pipe.
- overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
- parathyroid gland — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
- partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
- prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
- pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
- receding forehead — a forehead which slopes backwards
- receding hairline — hair that is thinning at the front
- richard arkwright — Sir Richard, 1732–92, English inventor of the spinning jenny.
- right in the head — sane
- sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
- smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
- south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- spruce gall aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
- technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
- vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
- vulcan death grip — (jargon) A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
- wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
- without regard to — with no concern for
- wring one's hands — If someone wrings their hands, they hold them together and twist and turn them, usually because they are very worried or upset about something. You can also say that someone is wringing their hands when they are expressing sorrow that a situation is so bad but are saying that they are unable to change it.