16-letter words containing h, e, i, g
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
- engineer's chain — a unit of length equal to 100 feet
- english canadian — a Canadian citizen whose first language is English, esp one of English descent
- english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
- english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
- englishman's tie — a type of knot for tying together heavy ropes
- enough is enough — expressing exasperation
- entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
- epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
- equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
- eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
- ethnic cleansing — genocide
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
- etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
- 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.
- fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
- fashion magazine — periodical about trendy clothing
- fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
- feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
- feminine hygiene — hygiene relating to specifically female aspects of the body
- 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.
- flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
- 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.
- 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.
- franking machine — a machine that franks letters
- 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.
- gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
- galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
- general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
- geochronological — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
- geochronologists — Plural form of geochronologist.
- geographic range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible to the eye at a given elevation, assuming that the weather is clear and that the light is sufficiently powerful to be visible from any point at which it appears above the horizon.
- geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
- geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- gerontomorphosis — Biology. evolutionary specialization of a species to a degree that decreases its capability for further adaptation and eventually leads to its extinction.
- get sth straight — If you get something straight, you make sure that you understand it properly or that someone else does.
- gilding the lily — If you say that someone is gilding the lily, you mean that they are spoiling something that is already beautiful or perfect by trying to improve it or by praising it too highly.
- give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
- glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand