14-letter words containing g, e, t, h, s
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- 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.
- do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
- eggshell white — a yellowish white colour
- eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
- english setter — bird dog
- english sonnet — a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
- english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- enlightenments — Plural form of enlightenment.
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- eschatological — Pertaining to eschatology.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- 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
- flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
- go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.