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

  • dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
  • 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.
  • direct lighting — lighting in which most of the light is cast directly from the fixture or source to the illumined area.
  • dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
  • electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • foreshortenings — Plural form of foreshortening.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • freedom fighter — a fighter for freedom, especially a person who battles against established forces of tyranny and dictatorship.
  • freight charges — the price charged for conveying goods by freight
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
  • geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • get it together — to achieve one's full potential, either generally as a person or in a particular field of activity
  • get the picture — understand
  • 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.
  • 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 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 the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • gopher tortoise — any North American burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, especially G. polyphemus, of the southeastern U.S.: several species are now reduced in number.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • green lightning — [IBM] 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded. This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user know that "something is happening". That, it certainly does. Later microprocessor-driven IBM colour graphics displays were actually *programmed* to produce green lightning! 2. [proposed] Any bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit rationalisation or marketing. "Motorola calls the CISC cruft in the 88000 architecture "compatibility logic", but I call it green lightning". See also feature.
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