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14-letter words containing f, i, g, h, t

  • light infantry — foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
  • light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
  • light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
  • line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
  • moonlight flit — a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • nothing for it — no choice; no other course
  • nothing if not — You use nothing if not in front of an adjective to indicate that someone or something clearly has a lot of the particular quality mentioned.
  • 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.
  • photofinishing — the act or occupation of developing films, printing photographs, etc.
  • piece of eight — peso (def 4).
  • pigs might fly — If you say 'pigs might fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • right-to-lifer — someone who supports the right to life of the unborn and opposes abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • shift register — (in digital circuits) a register in which all bits can be shifted one or more positions to the left or to the right
  • 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.
  • shifty-looking — having the appearance of being dishonest
  • 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.
  • snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • 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.
  • street fighter — a person whose style of fistfighting was learned in the streets, as opposed to a trained or proficient boxer.
  • 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
  • the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
  • torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
  • 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
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
  • weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
  • weight lifting — sport: competition to lift barbells
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
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