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14-letter words containing g, i, t, c, h

  • flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
  • get with child — to make pregnant
  • 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)
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
  • graphic artist — sb who draws, paints, prints, etc.
  • graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • 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.
  • hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
  • haematological — Alternative spelling of hematological.
  • have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • helminthologic — of or pertaining to helminthology
  • hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
  • herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
  • hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
  • histologically — In an histological manner.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hygroscopicity — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
  • hyperenergetic — extremely or excessively energetic
  • hypergeometric — of or relating to operations or series that transcend ordinary geometrical operations or series
  • ichthyological — Of or pertaining to ichthyology. Adjective form of ichthyology.
  • ichthyophagist — a person who eats or subsists on fish.
  • ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • 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.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • light aircraft — A light aircraft is a small aeroplane that is designed to carry a small number of passengers or a small amount of goods.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • lithographical — Of or pertaining to lithography.
  • lithologically — From a lithological point of view.
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