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14-letter words containing a, s, h, o, t

  • cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
  • cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
  • cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • cystolithiasis — a medical condition caused by the formation of a calculus in the bladder
  • data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
  • decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • east-northeast — the point on a compass midway between east and northeast.
  • east-southeast — the point on a compass midway between east and southeast.
  • ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
  • elevator shaft — passage for a lift
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • eschatological — Pertaining to eschatology.
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
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