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16-letter words containing t, i, g, h, e

  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • short sweetening — sugar.
  • shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • spaghetti squash — a variety of a widely cultivated squash, Cucurbita pepo, having edible flesh in the form of spaghettilike strands.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • squatter's right — a claim to real property, especially public land, that may be granted to a person who has openly possessed and continuously occupied it without legal authority for a prescribed period of years.
  • standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
  • static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
  • steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
  • sterling heights — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • sth rings a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • straight shooter — a person who is forthright and upstanding in behavior.
  • straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
  • strain hardening — a process in which a metal is permanently deformed in order to increase its resistance to further deformation
  • streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • take (to) flight — to run away; flee
  • teacher training — practical teaching course
  • teaching machine — a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
  • telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
  • tensile strength — the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimum amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
  • the herring-pond — the Atlantic Ocean
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the nitty-gritty — the basic facts of a matter, situation, etc; the core
  • the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the tamil tigers — a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist movement founded in the early 1970s that sought to establish an independent Tamil homeland (Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka; they waged a military campaign until defeated in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thinking pattern — manner of thinking
  • thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
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