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14-letter words containing t, h, e, n, r, g

  • english setter — bird dog
  • enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
  • fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • freight engine — a locomotive for pulling freight trains, designed for high drawbar pull rather than high speed.
  • fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • geochronometry — the determination of the absolute age of earth materials, as by radiometric dating.
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
  • ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • green strength — Foundry. the tensile strength of greensand.
  • greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • growth hormone — any substance that stimulates or controls the growth of an organism, especially a species-specific hormone, as the human hormone somatotropin, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. Abbreviation: GH.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • 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.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
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