14-letter words containing h, i, g, e, n, d
- speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- teeth grinding — habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep.
- the done thing — If you say that something is the done thing, you mean it is the most socially acceptable way to behave.
- the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
- thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
- thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
- unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.