15-letter words containing r, i, d, g
- high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
- high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
- hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
- i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- in good spirits — cheerful
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
- industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
- indy car racing — a US form of professional motor racing around banked oval tracks
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- insider dealing — dealing in company securities on a recognized stock exchange, with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss, by a person who has confidential information about the securities that, if generally known, would affect their price. Its practice by those connected with a company is illegal
- insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
- interior design — the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
- kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- ladies' gallery — a gallery in the old House of Commons set aside for women spectators
- lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
- leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
- lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
- lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
- lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
- liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
- living standard — standard of living.
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- logical address — virtual address
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- 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.