14-letter words containing g, a, i, n, s, h
- stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- straight angle — the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one half of the circle; an angle of 180°.
- straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straight joint — a vertical joint in brickwork that is directly above a vertical joint in the course below
- straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straighten out — make straighter
- straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
- submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- 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
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
- watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- whistling swan — the small North American subspecies, Cygnus columbianus columbianus, of the tundra swan.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- wiring harness — a system of insulated conducting wires bound together with insulating materials, used in the electrical system of a machine, as a motor vehicle or washing machine.