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14-letter words containing h, a, i, n, t

  • in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • inauthenticity — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
  • inhabitability — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
  • inhabitiveness — the disposition to remain in one place; the inclination not to leave home
  • inheritability — capable of being inherited.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
  • internal rhyme — a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
  • interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
  • into the black — into a profitable condition financially
  • isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
  • isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • 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).
  • licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
  • lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
  • life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • light infantry — foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
  • lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
  • lyophilization — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
  • machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
  • macintosh iicx — (computer)   (Mac IIcx) A version of Apple's Macintosh II personal computer, introduced in 1989, with a Motorola 68030 processor running at 16 MHz and up to 128 MB of RAM (120 ns, 30-pin DRAM chips). The IIcx requires System 6.0.3 or later and requires "Mode 32" or "32-bit Enabler" to use more than 8MB of RAM. It was discontinued 1991, and in 1996 is still considered one of the best-designed Macs ever.
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