14-letter words containing s, i, g, h, t, n
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- the betting is — If you say the betting is that something will happen or is true, you are suggesting that it is very likely to happen or to be true.
- the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- 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.
- throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
- 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
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
- unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
- watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
- whistling swan — the small North American subspecies, Cygnus columbianus columbianus, of the tundra swan.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.