14-letter words containing h, i, g, r
- stick together — be united
- 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 arrow — a person who manifests high-minded devotion to clean living and moral righteousness.
- straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straight chair — a chair with a straight back, especially one that is unupholstered and has straight legs and straight arms or no arms.
- straight fight — a contest between two candidates only
- straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
- straight joint — a vertical joint in brickwork that is directly above a vertical joint in the course below
- straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
- straight razor — a razor having a stiff blade made of steel that is hinged to a handle into which it folds.
- straight stall — a narrow, oblong stall in which a horse or other animal cannot turn around.
- straight-ahead — not deviating from what is usual or expected; conventional or traditional; standard: a straight-ahead novel with a happy ending.
- straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- straighten out — make straighter
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
- stratigraphist — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- street fighter — a person whose style of fistfighting was learned in the streets, as opposed to a trained or proficient boxer.
- strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
- strike through — cross out
- strip lighting — Strip lighting is a method of lighting which uses long tubes rather than light bulbs.
- striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- tachygraphical — characteristic of tachygraphy
- target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
- 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.
- telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
- thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
- 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
- the prize ring — the sport of prizefighting
- 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 three magi — the wise men from the East who came to do homage to the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:1–12) and traditionally called Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar
- 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.
- thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
- thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thick register — chest register.
- 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
- throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
- through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
- throw light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.