14-letter words containing d, i, g, h, t
- right-hand man — an indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand.
- saint gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- shifting sands — If you refer to the shifting sands of a situation, you mean that it changes so often that it is difficult to deal with.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- shooting lodge — a country house providing accommodation for a shooting party during the shooting season
- single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
- smooth dogfish — any of several requiem sharks having no spines in front of the dorsal fin, especially Mustelus canis, ranging along the American coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
- straight-ahead — not deviating from what is usual or expected; conventional or traditional; standard: a straight-ahead novel with a happy ending.
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- teeth grinding — habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep.
- the done thing — If you say that something is the done thing, you mean it is the most socially acceptable way to behave.
- the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
- the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
- 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
- trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
- twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
- unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
- up to high doh — extremely excited or keyed up
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.
- zodiacal light — a luminous tract in the sky, seen in the west after sunset or in the east before sunrise and thought to be the light reflected from a cloud of meteoric matter revolving round the sun.