14-letter words containing l, a, h, g
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
- eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
- elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
- eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
- encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
- english saddle — a lightweight saddle with a low cantle and pommel and no horn, designed to place the rider's weight forward onto the withers
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- eschatological — Pertaining to eschatology.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
- exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- finishing nail — a slender nail with a small globular head, used for finish work, being driven to slightly beneath the surface and covered with putty or the like.
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
- flashing point — flash point (def 1).
- flight capital — funds transferred abroad in order to avoid high taxes or to provide for a person's needs if flight from the country becomes necessary
- flight feather — one of the large, stiff feathers of the wing and tail of a bird that are essential to flight.
- floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
- flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)