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

  • birthing chair — a chair constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
  • black as night — totally dark
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
  • catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • circular light — light that is circularly polarized.
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
  • 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
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
  • crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
  • croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
  • cytopathologic — the science dealing with the study of the diseases of cells.
  • dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
  • 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
  • dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
  • dermatographic — relating to dermatography
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