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

  • birthing chair — a chair constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
  • black as night — totally dark
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
  • change machine — a machine that provides smaller denomination coins or notes in exchange for larger ones
  • change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
  • change ringing — the art of ringing a series of tuned bells of different tones, as those hung in a church tower, according to any of various orderly sequences.
  • change-ringing — the art of bell-ringing in which a set of bells is rung in an established order which is then changed
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • chinook jargon — a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • choreographing — Present participle of choreograph.
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
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