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14-letter words containing i, n, c, h, t

  • fighting chair — a chair fastened to the deck at the stern of a seagoing fishing boat for use by an angler in landing a large fish.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • fitted kitchen — a kitchen with units that are attached to the wall
  • flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • french cricket — a child's game resembling cricket, in which the batsman's legs are used as the wicket
  • french tickler — a condom designed with knobs, projections, etc.
  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
  • greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
  • handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
  • haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
  • have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
  • hell's kitchen — (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly notorious for its slums and high crime rate.
  • helminthologic — of or pertaining to helminthology
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
  • heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
  • holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
  • humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperefficient — more efficient than normal
  • hyperenergetic — extremely or excessively energetic
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