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14-letter words containing h, i, g, l, t, e

  • something else — sth different
  • something like — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • stalking horse — If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
  • stalking-horse — a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • straight angle — the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one half of the circle; an angle of 180°.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
  • the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
  • theriogenology — the branch of veterinary medicine encompassing all aspects of reproduction.
  • thermal imager — a piece of equipment used to detect or provide images of people or things
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
  • 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
  • three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
  • trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • unenlightening — not enlightening; not clarifying
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
  • weight lifting — sport: competition to lift barbells
  • weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
  • whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
  • whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
  • white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
  • 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.
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