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14-letter words containing s, h, a, g

  • disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
  • disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • english saddle — a lightweight saddle with a low cantle and pommel and no horn, designed to place the rider's weight forward onto the withers
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • eschatological — Pertaining to eschatology.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • 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
  • fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • fashionmonging — the act of analysing, following or advising others on fashion
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
  • finishing nail — a slender nail with a small globular head, used for finish work, being driven to slightly beneath the surface and covered with putty or the like.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • g-strophanthin — ouabain.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
  • garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • 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.
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