14-letter words containing t, h, i, r, d
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- 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.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
- firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
- 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.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- 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.
- 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.
- grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
- 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.
- 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.
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
- harpsichordist — One who plays the harpsichord.
- head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- headmastership — The role or position of headmaster.
- headmistresses — Plural form of headmistress.
- heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- helicopter pad — landing area
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- hereditability — heritable.
- hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
- hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
- herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
- holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
- hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hospital drama — a TV programme or series based on events in a hospital
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
- hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology