14-letter words containing f, a, g, h
- graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
- grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
- guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-evergreen — having leaves which may or may not remain green throughout the year
- half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
- half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- height of land — a watershed
- hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
- highland fling — fling (def 17).
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
- light aircraft — A light aircraft is a small aeroplane that is designed to carry a small number of passengers or a small amount of goods.
- light infantry — foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
- midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
- penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- rate of growth — the rate at which an economy grows
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
- self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- 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.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- stand the gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
- straight fight — a contest between two candidates only
- straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- total fighting — a combat sport in which very few restrictions are placed on the type of blows or tactics that may be used
- traffic lights — a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic
- twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
- weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.