14-letter words containing d, h, i
- thiacetic acid — thioacetic acid.
- thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
- thick and thin — all manner of difficulties
- think out loud — to speak one's thoughts as they occur
- third position — a position in which the feet overlap at the heels with the toes pointing out in opposite directions to the left and right.
- third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
- through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
- thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
- tip one's hand — the act of tipping.
- to have had it — If you say that someone has had it, you mean they are in very serious trouble or have no hope of succeeding.
- to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
- tooth and nail — with all one's resources or energy; fiercely: We fought tooth and nail but lost.
- tour d'horizon — a general survey; overview.
- trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
- traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- triiodomethane — iodoform.
- tripe-de-roche — rock tripe.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- un-synthesized — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unanesthetised — not anaesthetised
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- undernourished — not nourished with sufficient or proper food to maintain or promote health or normal growth.
- underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
- undiminishable — unable to be diminished
- unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
- unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- up to high doh — extremely excited or keyed up
- varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
- voroshilovgrad — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- ward cunnigham — (person) The creator of the first wiki.
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- weather window — a limited interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as laying offshore pipelines, reaching a high mountain summit, launching a satellite, etc
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
- well-published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- whaddayacallit — A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.