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14-letter words containing h, o, a, g, i, e

  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • shoe repairing — the trade of mending shoes
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • shooting range — place for practising with guns
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
  • 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.
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • 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.
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • the atomic age — the current historical period, initiated by the development of the first atomic bomb towards the end of World War II and now marked by a balance of power between nations possessing the hydrogen bomb and the use of nuclear power as a source of energy
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
  • underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
  • 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.
  • village school — a school in a village
  • voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
  • 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.
  • white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
  • white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
  • whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
  • xeroradiograph — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
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