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14-letter words containing t, r, e, s, n, a

  • grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • grease-stained — stained with grease marks
  • great pyrenees — one of a breed of large dogs having a heavy, white coat, raised originally in the Pyrenees for herding sheep and as a watchdog.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
  • greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
  • greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • 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.
  • hair extension — attached length of hair
  • half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
  • hammerstein ii — Oscar. 1895–1960, US librettist and songwriter: collaborated with the composer Richard Rodgers in musicals such as South Pacific (1949) and The Sound of Music (1959)
  • 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's-breadth — handbreadth
  • head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heart of stone — lack of compassion
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • heat-resistant — able to resist and remain unaffected by heat
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
  • 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.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • housing market — property trade
  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
  • hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hypnotherapist — A practitioner of hypnotherapy.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • illiterateness — Quality of being illiterate.
  • immaterialness — The state of being immaterial; immateriality.
  • immiserisation — the process of immiserising
  • immiserization — the process of immiserizing
  • immoderateness — The quality of being immoderate, lack of moderation or temperance.
  • imperativeness — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
  • impersonations — Plural form of impersonation.
  • in one's heart — secretly; fundamentally
  • in parenthesis — You say 'in parenthesis' to indicate that you are about to add something before going back to the main topic.
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