16-letter words containing r, h, g
- district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
- drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
- draught excluder — a device (such as a strip of wood, or a long cylindrical cushion) placed at the bottom of a door to keep out draughts
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
- earth-shattering — earthshaking.
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
- eighteen-wheeler — a tractor-trailer having eighteen wheels
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
- engineer's chain — a unit of length equal to 100 feet
- english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
- entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- extreme fighting — a combat sport incorporating techniques from a range of martial arts, with little if any regulation of the types of blows permissible
- fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
- false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
- farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
- fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
- father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
- feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
- feel the draught — to be short of money
- fifth-generation — denoting developments in computer design to produce machines with artificial intelligence
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
- fisherman's ring — the signet ring worn by the pope.
- fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
- flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
- flight formation — an arrangement of two or more airplanes flying together in a group, usually in a predetermined pattern.
- flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
- flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
- flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
- food for thought — sth worth thinking about
- foreign exchange — commercial paper drawn on a person or corporation in a foreign nation.
- forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
- forward chaining — A data-driven technique used in constructing goals or reaching inferences derived from a set of facts. Forward chaining is the basis of production systems. Oppose backward chaining.
- forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
- forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
- franking machine — a machine that franks letters
- freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
- freight terminal — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- friedrich engels — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1820–95, German socialist in England: collaborated with Karl Marx in systematizing Marxism.
- from the word go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
- gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.