14-letter words containing h, e, i, g, t
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hyperenergetic — extremely or excessively energetic
- hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.
- hypergeometric — of or relating to operations or series that transcend ordinary geometrical operations or series
- hyperhygienist — Being too hygienic.
- hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
- hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
- hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
- 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.
- in league with — along with, plotting with
- in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- in the morning — every morning
- in the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
- in this regard — on this point
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
- isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
- king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
- kirghiz steppe — a steppe in Kazakhstan.
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- knight templar — Templar.
- 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.
- lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- 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).
- legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
- light-coloured — having a light colour
- light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
- line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
- little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- 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
- magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)