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14-letter words containing h, y, g, i

  • seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
  • shabby-looking — appearing old and in bad condition
  • sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • shifty-looking — having the appearance of being dishonest
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
  • stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
  • stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
  • tachygraphical — characteristic of tachygraphy
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • theriogenology — the branch of veterinary medicine encompassing all aspects of reproduction.
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
  • weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • yang chen ning — born 1922, Chinese physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1957.
  • yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.
  • zoophytologist — an expert in zoophytology
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
  • zygomatic arch — the bony arch at the outer border of the eye socket, formed by the union of the cheekbone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
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