14-letter words containing h, i, k
- spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
- spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
- 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.
- stick together — be united
- 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.
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
- strike it rich — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike through — cross out
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- tailor's chalk — hardened chalk or soapstone used to make temporary guide marks on a garment that is being altered.
- take a hand in — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- take the chair — to preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
- take the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- take the fifth — next after the fourth; being the ordinal number for five.
- the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
- the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
- the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
- the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
- the silk route — an ancient trade route that linked Asia and the countries of the Mediterranean and was followed by Marco Polo when he travelled to Cathay
- thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
- thick and thin — all manner of difficulties
- thick register — chest register.
- think out loud — to speak one's thoughts as they occur
- think positive — be optimistic
- 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.
- ticket machine — automated ticket dispenser
- to strike home — If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target.
- to think twice — If you think twice about doing something, you consider it again and decide not to do it, or decide to do it differently.
- 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.
- trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
- turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
- turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
- vishakhapatnam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
- walk away with — escape
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- west berkshire — a unitary authority in S England, in Berkshire. Pop: 144 200 (2003 est). Area: 705 sq km (272 sq miles)
- west yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 787 sq. mi. (2039 sq. km).
- whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- white-knuckled — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
- wide-awake hat — a hat with a low crown and very wide brim
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).