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

  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
  • slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • stalking horse — If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
  • stalking-horse — a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • straight angle — the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one half of the circle; an angle of 180°.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • telegraph pole — A telegraph pole is a tall wooden pole with telephone wires attached to it, connecting several different buildings to the telephone system.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephotograph — a photograph taken with a telephoto lens.
  • ten-gallon hat — a broad-brimmed hat with a high crown, worn especially in the western and southwestern U.S.; cowboy hat.
  • texas longhorn — one of a breed of long-horned beef cattle of the southwestern U.S., developed from cattle introduced into North America from Spain and valued for disease resistance, fecundity, and a historical association with the old West: now rare.
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the great glen — a fault valley across the whole of Scotland, extending southwest from the Moray Firth in the east to Loch Linnhe and containing Loch Ness and Loch Lochy
  • 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
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • the palaeogene — the Palaeogene period or system
  • the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
  • thermal imager — a piece of equipment used to detect or provide images of people or things
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • threaded glass — glass decorated with a pattern produced by variegated glass filaments.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • 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.
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