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

  • pitch and putt — of or relating to a small-scale golf course, 5 to 20 acres, and usually having 9 holes of 50 yards in length from tee to cup.
  • pitch-and-putt — of or relating to a small-scale golf course, 5 to 20 acres, and usually having 9 holes of 50 yards in length from tee to cup.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • push down list — (programming)   (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
  • put the lid on — to be the final blow to
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quick thinking — problem-solving in an emergency
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
  • running lights — the lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night is required to display
  • running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.
  • schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
  • shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
  • shutting stile — the stile of a door or shutter that closes against the frame of the opening.
  • siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
  • smooth-running — operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • south carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
  • 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).
  • south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
  • spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
  • spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • sunshine state — Florida (used as a nickname).
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
  • the humanities — the study of literature, philosophy, and the arts
  • the millennium — the period of a thousand years of Christ's awaited reign upon earth
  • the mujaheddin — (in Afghanistan and Iran) fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas; in Afghanistan in 1992 the mujaheddin overthrew the government but were unable to agree on a constitution due to factional conflict and in 1996 Taliban forces seized power
  • the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • thermojunction — a point of electrical contact between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears, the magnitude of which depends on the temperature of the contact and the nature of the metals
  • think out loud — to speak one's thoughts as they occur
  • thomas aquinas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
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