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15-letter words containing i, t, s, h, g

  • cycling clothes — special clothes, such as lycra shorts, suitable for cycling in
  • daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
  • disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
  • dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • eddystone light — lighthouse on dangerous rocks (Eddystone Rocks) just off the SE coast of Cornwall, in the English Channel
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • extension light — a light on the end of a length of cable
  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • fight windmills — to fight imaginary evils or opponents
  • fighting spirit — courage and determination expressed in a willingness to fight or struggle
  • finishing touch — a final additional or detail that completes and perfects something
  • flashlight fish — any of several fishes, especially Photoblepharon palpebratus, inhabiting deep, dark waters and having light organs that can be closed with a lid.
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • flight shooting — competitive shooting for distance only.
  • foreshortenings — Plural form of foreshortening.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • freight charges — the price charged for conveying goods by freight
  • gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
  • galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
  • geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
  • giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • give sth a miss — If you give something a miss, you decide not to do it or not to go to it.
  • give sth a rest — If someone tells you to give something a rest, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you.
  • give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • go with a swing — If you say that something is going with a swing, you mean that it is lively and exciting.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • gopher tortoise — any North American burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, especially G. polyphemus, of the southeastern U.S.: several species are now reduced in number.
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