14-letter words containing r, i, n, g, t, h
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- 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
- drummond light — calcium light.
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- english setter — bird dog
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- fighting chair — a chair fastened to the deck at the stern of a seagoing fishing boat for use by an angler in landing a large fish.
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
- flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- 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.
- freight engine — a locomotive for pulling freight trains, designed for high drawbar pull rather than high speed.
- fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
- g-strophanthin — ouabain.
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
- grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
- graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
- graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
- greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.