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14-letter words containing l, a, h, g, u, e

  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • 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
  • the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • un-challenging — offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc: a challenging course; a challenging game.
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
  • whole language — a method of teaching reading in which reading is combined with listening, speaking, and writing practice, and literature is used to decode words in context. Compare phonics (def 1).
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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