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15-letter words containing i, h, e, a

  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
  • freight charges — the price charged for conveying goods by freight
  • french canadian — a descendant of the early French colonists of Canada.
  • french guianese — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
  • french-speaking — able to speak French
  • fresh-air fiend — a person who enjoys being outdoors or having good ventilation when indoors
  • friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
  • garage mechanic — sb employed to repair vehicles
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
  • gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
  • give sth a miss — If you give something a miss, you decide not to do it or not to go to it.
  • give sth a rest — If someone tells you to give something a rest, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you.
  • give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
  • glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • grain itch mite — a mite, Pyemotes ventricosus, that often occurs in straw and normally feeds on the larvae of insects but opportunistically bites humans, causing an itching dermatitis.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • 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
  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
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