14-letter words containing i, n, s, t, c, h
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- 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.
- 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.
- function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
- 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.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
- heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- 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.
- 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
- historicalness — The quality of being historical.
- histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
- 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.
- hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
- ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
- john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
- machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
- macintosh iicx — (computer) (Mac IIcx) A version of Apple's Macintosh II personal computer, introduced in 1989, with a Motorola 68030 processor running at 16 MHz and up to 128 MB of RAM (120 ns, 30-pin DRAM chips). The IIcx requires System 6.0.3 or later and requires "Mode 32" or "32-bit Enabler" to use more than 8MB of RAM. It was discontinued 1991, and in 1996 is still considered one of the best-designed Macs ever.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- mathematicians — Plural form of mathematician.
- medicine chest — bathroom cabinet
- mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
- metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.