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

  • bang to rights — caught red-handed
  • bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
  • bark chippings — small pieces of tree bark used chiefly for pathways in gardens or woodland
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • batement light — a compartment of a window with tracery, the bottom of which is formed by the arched head of a compartment or compartments below.
  • bathing beauty — an attractive girl in a swimming costume
  • bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
  • batting helmet — a rigid plastic cap with a sidepiece extending down over the ear, worn for protection while batting
  • bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
  • bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
  • bean bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • bean-bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • bellingshausen — Fabian Gottlieb von [fey-bee-uh n-got-leeb von] /ˈfeɪ bi ənˈgɒt lib vɒn/ (Show IPA), (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshauzen) 1778–1852, Russian naval officer and explorer.
  • bengal catechu — catechu.
  • binding handle — (networking)   An identifier representing the connection between a client and server. An association between client/server end-points and protocols.
  • 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
  • branch manager — a person who manages the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • 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
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • 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.
  • champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
  • 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 of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
  • 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
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
  • changelessness — The state or quality of being changeless.
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
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