14-letter words containing r, i, g, h
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- crime fighting — the series of measures and actions taken by the forces of the law to combat crime
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- dehydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenize.
- demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- diaphragm pump — A diaphragm pump is a pump in which a diaphragm is used to move a fluid.
- dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
- discharge head — The discharge head is the pressure at the discharge of a pump, measured as a height.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.