14-letter words containing t, h, e, s
- 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.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- 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
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
- 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.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- 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.
- foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
- freshness date — the last date, usually specified on the label or packaging, that a food, as bread, is considered fresh, although it may be sold, ordinarily at reduced prices, or eaten after that date.
- freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
- from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
- front of house — restaurant
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
- go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
- go on the swag — to become a tramp
- go to the dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
- granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- green strength — Foundry. the tensile strength of greensand.
- 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.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
- haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
- haematopoiesis — Alternative spelling of hematopoiesis.
- 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.
- hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve