16-letter words containing h, e, i, g

gnu archive site — (body) The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
go into the tank — a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas: tanks for storing oil.
go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
go over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
go to the toilet — You can say that someone goes to the toilet to mean that they get rid of waste substances from their body, especially when you want to avoid using words that you think may offend people.
go with the flow — take a relaxed approach
go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
graphic designer — person: commercial artist
graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
grit one's teeth — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
growth potential — capability of expanding
guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
hearing-impaired — having reduced or deficient hearing ability; hard-of-hearing: special programs for hearing-impaired persons.
heating engineer — a person whose job is to install and maintain equipment used for heating buildings
hebbian learning — (artificial intelligence) The most common way to train a neural network; a kind of unsupervised learning; named after canadian neuropsychologist, Donald O. Hebb. The algorithm is based on Hebb's Postulate, which states that where one cell's firing repeatedly contributes to the firing of another cell, the magnitude of this contribution will tend to increase gradually with time. This means that what may start as little more than a coincidental relationship between the firing of two nearby neurons becomes strongly causal. Despite limitations with Hebbian learning, e.g., the inability to learn certain patterns, variations such as Signal Hebbian Learning and Differential Hebbian Learning are still used.
hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
here we go again — You use expressions such as 'here we go' and 'here we go again' in order to indicate that something is happening again in the way that you expected, especially something unpleasant.
herod agrippa ii — died ?93 ad, king of territories in N Palestine (50–?93 ad). He presided (60) at the trial of Saint Paul and sided with the Roman authorities in the Jewish rebellion of 66
herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
herringbone bond — a brickwork bond in which the exposed brickwork is bonded to the heart of the wall by concealed courses of bricks laid diagonally to the faces of the wall in a herringbone pattern, with the end of each brick butting against the side of the adjoining brick; a form of raking bond.
herringbone gear — a helical gear having teeth that lie on the pitch cylinder in a V -shaped form so that one half of each tooth is on a right-handed helix and the other half on a left-handed helix.
hesselman engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a spark for ignition.
heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
high memory area — (storage) (HMA) The first 64 kilobytes (minus 16 byte) of the extended memory on an IBM PC. By a strange design glitch the Intel 80x86 processors can actually address 17*64 kbyte minus 16 byte of memory (from 0000:0000 to ffff:ffff) in real mode. In the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 processors, unable to handle more than 1 megabyte of memory, addressing wrapped around, that is, address ffff:0010 was equivalent to 0000:0000. For compatibility reasons, later processors still wrapped around by default, but this feature could be switched off. Special programs called A20 handlers can control the addressing mode dynamically, thereby allowing programs to load themselves into the 1024--1088 kbyte region and run in real mode. From version 5.0 parts of MS-DOS can be loaded into HMA as well freeing up to 46 kbytes of conventional memory.
high renaissance — a style of art developed in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on draftsmanship, schematized, often centralized compositions, and the illusion of sculptural volume in painting. Compare Early Renaissance, Venetian (def 2).
high wire artist — a performer of a high-wire act
high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
high-level waste — radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated
high-maintenance — needing frequent maintenance or repair: My bike is high-maintenance; this is its third front wheel this month.
high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.

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