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14-letter words containing s, h, o, t, g

  • dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
  • do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • english sonnet — a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • eschatological — Pertaining to eschatology.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • 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
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • 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.
  • g-strophanthin — ouabain.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
  • 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.
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • go to the dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • goodnight kiss — a kiss given to a person before going home or going to sleep
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
  • haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
  • hangman's knot — a slip noose for hanging a person, usually having eight or nine turns around the rope.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
  • herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
  • heterographies — Plural form of heterography.
  • heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
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