14-letter words containing t, h, u
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- 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.
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- follow through — the act of following.
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- 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.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
- fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
- fourth of july — Independence Day.
- 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)
- front of house — restaurant
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
- futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- get funny with — to be impudent to
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- get through to — reach: on phone
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
- 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 up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
- guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
- gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
- 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.