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14-letter words containing g, a, t, h, e, r

  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
  • dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
  • dermatographic — relating to dermatography
  • directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
  • discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
  • drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
  • eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
  • enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • feather-legged — cowardly.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flight feather — one of the large, stiff feathers of the wing and tail of a bird that are essential to flight.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
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