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14-letter words containing h, a, f, t, e

  • sea of okhotsk — part of the NW Pacific, surrounded by the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin Island, and the E coast of Siberia. Area: 1 589 840 sq km (613 838 sq miles)
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
  • sharp-featured — having very clearly defined facial features
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
  • software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • stand the gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • take the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • take the fifth — next after the fourth; being the ordinal number for five.
  • take the floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the maple leaf — the national flag of Canada, consisting of a representation of a maple leaf in red on a white central panel with a vertical red bar on either side
  • the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • theater of war — the entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations, including the theater of operations and the zone of interior.
  • theatre of war — the area of air, sea and land that is directly involved in war
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • tree of heaven — an Asiatic tree, Ailanthus altissima, having large oblong leaves and rank-smelling flowers, often planted as a shade tree.
  • trench warfare — combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.
  • turn of phrase — expression, wording
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
  • unthankfulness — the quality or condition of being unthankful; lack of thankfulness; ungratefulness
  • unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
  • vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
  • waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • weatherproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherproof.
  • weatherproofer — a worker who weatherproofs houses and other buildings.
  • weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
  • welfare mother — the mother of dependent children who receives government welfare benefits.
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
  • what manner of — You use what manner of to suggest that the person or thing you are about to mention is of an unusual or unknown kind.
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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