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14-letter words containing g, e, t, h, s

  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • go to the dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • green strength — Foundry. the tensile strength of greensand.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
  • haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
  • hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
  • herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
  • heterographies — Plural form of heterography.
  • heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
  • heterozygosity — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
  • high as a kite — very drunk
  • high priestess — the female leader of a tribe, religion, or movement; a female high priest.
  • homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
  • hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
  • housing estate — housing development.
  • housing market — property trade
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyperhygienist — Being too hygienic.
  • hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kirghiz steppe — a steppe in Kazakhstan.
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • m'naghten test — a rule that defines a person as legally insane when that person cannot distinguish right from wrong.
  • magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
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