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

  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • shipping agent — a person or company whose business is to prepare shipping documents, arrange shipping space and insurance, and deal with customs requirements
  • shoe repairing — the trade of mending shoes
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • shopping plaza — a complex of stores, banks, movie theaters, etc.; shopping center.
  • sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
  • sophisticating — a sophisticated person.
  • spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
  • spanish guinea — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
  • spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
  • sparring match — a practice boxing match
  • spear-phishing — the practice of sending fraudulent e-mails to extract financial data from computer users for purposes of identity theft, by mimicking a sender that the recipient knows
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganographer — an expert in steganography
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • stigmatophilia — a love for body piercing or tattooing that is accompanied by sexual arousal
  • straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
  • stratigraphist — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
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