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14-letter words containing t, h, r, a, s

  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • cost the earth — to be very expensive
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • courtesy coach — a free coach
  • credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
  • cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
  • cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
  • cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • cryptaesthetic — of or relating to cryptaesthesia
  • cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
  • cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
  • darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
  • data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
  • dechristianize — to make non-Christian
  • decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
  • disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
  • disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
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