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

  • 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
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
  • 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
  • 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
  • delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
  • demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
  • discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
  • distinguishing — distinctive; characteristic, as a definitive feature of an individual or group: Intricate rhyming is a distinguishing feature of her poetry.
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • eggshell white — a yellowish white colour
  • 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 setter — bird dog
  • 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
  • english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • enlightenments — Plural form of enlightenment.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • eschatological — Pertaining to eschatology.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being 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
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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).
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