14-letter words containing g, e, t, h, s
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
- mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
- methodologists — Plural form of methodologist.
- midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
- monophthongise — Alternative spelling of monophthongize.
- mos technology — (company) A microprocessor design company started by some ex-Motorola designers, shortly after the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 appeared, in about 1975. MOS Technology introduced the 650x series, based on the Motorola 6800 design, though they were not exact clones for legal reasons. The design goal was a low-cost (smaler chip) design, realized by simplifying the decoder stage. There were no instructions with the value xxxxxx11, reducing the 1-of-4 decoder to a single NAND gate. Instructions with the value xxxxxx11 actually executed two instructions in paralell, some of them useful. The 6501 was pin-compatible with the 6800 for easier market penetration. The 650x-series had an on-chip clock oscillator while the 651x-series had none. The 6510 was used in the Commodore 64, released September 1981 and MOS made almost all the ICs for Commodore's pocket calculators. The PET was an idea of the of the 6500 developers. It was completly developed by MOS, but was manufactured and marketed by Commodore. By the time the it was ready for production (and Commodore had cancelled all orders) MOS had been taken over by Rockwell (Commodore's parent company). Just at this time the 6522 (VIA) was finished, but the data sheet for it was not and its developers had left MOS. For years, Rockwell didn't know in detail how the VIA worked.
- mother goddess — Kālī.
- nether regions — the lower part of a place, esp when unpleasant or frightening
- news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
- nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
- oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
- oligosynthetic — (linguistics) (of a language) using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.
- one's eighties — the ages between 80–89
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- photogeologist — a person who studies or has a profession in photogeology
- pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- plotting sheet — a blank chart having only a compass rose and latitude lines, longitude lines, or both, marked and annotated, as required, by a navigator.
- polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
- psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- rags to riches — You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- sailing length — a measurement of a yacht, comprising its length on the water line as well as certain measurements taken from the overhangs at bow and stern.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
- scrape through — only just succeed
- second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- seeing as/that — You can use seeing that or seeing as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
- segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- serve sb right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
- seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
- seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
- shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
- shaker heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- shear strength — the degree to which a material or bond is able to resist shear