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

  • dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
  • dining kitchen — a room where meals are eaten and prepared
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
  • dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • election night — the evening when the votes from an election are being counted
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
  • english setter — bird dog
  • english sonnet — a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
  • english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
  • enlightenments — Plural form of enlightenment.
  • etching needle — a type of needle used to etch patterns or designs on printing plates
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
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