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14-letter words containing r, h, g

  • storage heater — an electrical device capable of accumulating and radiating heat generated by off-peak electricity
  • 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 arrow — a person who manifests high-minded devotion to clean living and moral righteousness.
  • straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
  • straight chair — a chair with a straight back, especially one that is unupholstered and has straight legs and straight arms or no arms.
  • straight fight — a contest between two candidates only
  • straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
  • straight joint — a vertical joint in brickwork that is directly above a vertical joint in the course below
  • straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
  • straight razor — a razor having a stiff blade made of steel that is hinged to a handle into which it folds.
  • straight stall — a narrow, oblong stall in which a horse or other animal cannot turn around.
  • straight-ahead — not deviating from what is usual or expected; conventional or traditional; standard: a straight-ahead novel with a happy ending.
  • straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
  • straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
  • stratigraphist — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
  • street fighter — a person whose style of fistfighting was learned in the streets, as opposed to a trained or proficient boxer.
  • strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
  • strike through — cross out
  • strip lighting — Strip lighting is a method of lighting which uses long tubes rather than light bulbs.
  • striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
  • tachygraphical — characteristic of tachygraphy
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • teeth grinding — habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep.
  • 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.
  • terotechnology — a branch of technology that utilizes management, financial, and engineering expertise in the installation and efficient operation and maintenance of equipment and machinery
  • 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.
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
  • thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • 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 gender gap — the difference in the attitudes, behaviour, abilities, etc, of men and women, or boys and girls
  • 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 great trek — the migration of Boer farmers with their slaves and African servants from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • the lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor
  • 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 open group — (body)   (Formerly "X/Open") A vendor- and technology-neutral consortium of buyers and suppliers of information systems that aims to ease integration by testing and certifying products against open standards.
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