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

  • 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 around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
  • go night-night — go night-night, Baby Talk. to go to bed or to sleep.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • goodnight kiss — a kiss given to a person before going home or going to sleep
  • 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.
  • graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
  • greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • 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.
  • hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
  • haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
  • haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
  • 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.
  • hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
  • have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • 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.
  • heat lightning — lightning too distant for thunder to be heard, observed as diffuse flashes near the horizon on summer evenings.
  • heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • helminthologic — of or pertaining to helminthology
  • hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • hogging moment — a bending moment that produces convex bending at the supports of a continuously supported beam
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
  • homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
  • housing estate — housing development.
  • housing market — property trade
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
  • hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
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