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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).
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