14-letter words containing h, i, g, r
- throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
- torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
- track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
- trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
- traffic lights — a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic
- trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
- training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
- trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
- turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
- twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
- ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
- ultra-rightism — the beliefs of extremely right-wing political parties or groups
- ultra-rightist — a person with extremely right-wing political views
- 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.
- unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
- varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
- vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
- virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
- visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
- voroshilovgrad — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- ward cunnigham — (person) The creator of the first wiki.
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
- weight watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
- weight-watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
- weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
- whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
- whoremongering — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
- 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.
- win through to — If you win through to a particular position or stage of a competition, you achieve it after a great effort or by defeating opponents.
- winning hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- wiring harness — a system of insulated conducting wires bound together with insulating materials, used in the electrical system of a machine, as a motor vehicle or washing machine.
- witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.