14-letter words containing n, o, s, h
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- fifth position — a position similar to the first position, but with one foot in front, the heel and toe of the front foot adjacent to the toe and heel of the back foot.
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- finished goods — Finished goods are goods that have completed the manufacturing process, but have not yet been sold.
- finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
- fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
- flashing point — flash point (def 1).
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- 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.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- forehandedness — Quality of being forehanded.
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- front of house — restaurant
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
- g-strophanthin — ouabain.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
- go on the swag — to become a tramp
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
- goodnight kiss — a kiss given to a person before going home or going to sleep
- greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
- guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
- gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
- hair extension — attached length of hair
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- hamilton basso — Hamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
- hamiltonianism — the political principles or doctrines held by or associated with Alexander Hamilton, especially those stressing a strong central government and protective tariffs.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hanging scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- hangman's knot — a slip noose for hanging a person, usually having eight or nine turns around the rope.
- haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
- harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
- harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
- hash collision — (programming) (Or "hash clash") When two different keys hash to the same value, i.e. to the same location in a hash table.