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14-letter words containing r, h, g

  • the prize ring — the sport of prizefighting
  • 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.
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
  • the story goes — it is commonly said or believed
  • the three magi — the wise men from the East who came to do homage to the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:1–12) and traditionally called Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar
  • theriogenology — the branch of veterinary medicine encompassing all aspects of reproduction.
  • 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.
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thick register — chest register.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • thought shower — brainstorm
  • thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
  • 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.
  • three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
  • through street — a street along which the traffic has the right of way over vehicles entering or crossing at intersections.
  • throw light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • throw together — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
  • to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
  • torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
  • track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • traffic lights — a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic
  • tragacanth gum — Tragacanth gum is a gum obtained from the tragacanth plant, used as a suspending agent.
  • trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
  • training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
  • trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
  • ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
  • ultra-rightism — the beliefs of extremely right-wing political parties or groups
  • ultra-rightist — a person with extremely right-wing political views
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
  • unstrengthened — not strengthened or reinforced; not given additional strength
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