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15-letter words containing r, i, g, h

  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • crawling horror — (jargon)   Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
  • cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
  • cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
  • curate's-eggish — good in parts
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
  • delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
  • direct lighting — lighting in which most of the light is cast directly from the fixture or source to the illumined area.
  • dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • fight-or-flight — denoting instinctive response
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • fighting french — Free French.
  • fighting spirit — courage and determination expressed in a willingness to fight or struggle
  • figure of eight — figure eight.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flight engineer — a member of an aircraft crew responsible for the mechanical systems, fueling, and servicing of the craft.
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • 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
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
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