14-letter words containing t, e, r, a, s, i
- finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
- fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
- fire-resistant — totally or almost totally unburnable.
- fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- first language — mother tongue
- first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
- first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
- first sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a company, squadron, etc., responsible for personnel and administration.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- 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
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
- free-associate — to engage in free association.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- games mistress — a woman who teaches games and sports in a school
- garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
- generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- generating set — a generator
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
- grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
- grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- grease-stained — stained with grease marks
- great kiskadee — any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pitangus, especially P. sulphuratus (great kiskadee) ranging from the southwest U.S. to Argentina and noted for their loud calls and aggressive nature.
- greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
- greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- hair extension — attached length of hair
- hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
- hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hammerstein ii — Oscar. 1895–1960, US librettist and songwriter: collaborated with the composer Richard Rodgers in musicals such as South Pacific (1949) and The Sound of Music (1959)
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- headmastership — The role or position of headmaster.