15-letter words containing n, a, d, e
- grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
- grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
- grand serjeanty — serjeanty in which the tenant rendered services of a personal, honorary nature to the king, as carrying his sword or banner.
- grand staircase — a large and impressive staircase
- grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
- 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.
- great sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 1).
- great-grandaunt — an aunt of one's grandfather or grandmother.
- 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.
- green sandpiper — a species of sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, with a greenish back and wings
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- greenland whale — an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat
- grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
- griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
- griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
- ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
- guardian angels — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
- guardian reader — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
- guru meditation — (operating system) The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
- hale and hearty — in good health
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- hang one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- hang seng index — an index of share prices based on an average of 33 stocks quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- hardheartedness — The state of being hardhearted.
- hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
- hare and hounds — an outdoor game in which certain players, the hares, start off in advance on a long run, scattering small pieces of paper, called the scent, with the other players, the hounds, following the trail so marked in an effort to catch the hares before they reach a designated point.
- haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
- have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
- have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
- have a nice day — pleasantry
- have an edge on — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- have had enough — be weary, exasperated
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- hearing ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- hearing-ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heart condition — cardiac disorder
- heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
- hearth and home — domestic realm
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
- hebrew calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.