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14-letter words that end in th

  • hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
  • hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hand's-breadth — handbreadth
  • hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
  • in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
  • in league with — along with, plotting with
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • interfere with — tamper with
  • involute teeth — (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.
  • keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
  • keep the faith — stay true to beliefs
  • khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
  • language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
  • life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
  • make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • make time with — to succeed in attracting or having an affair with (a person)
  • maternal death — the death of a woman while pregnant or shortly after childbirth or an abortion
  • mean free path — the average distance that a particle travels between successive collisions with other particles.
  • molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
  • month by month — each month
  • montreal north — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, N of Montreal.
  • mouth-to-mouth — designating a method of artificial respiration involving blowing air rhythmically into the mouth of a person who has stopped breathing, to stimulate return of spontaneous breathing
  • multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
  • never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
  • ninety-seventh — next after the ninety-sixth; being the ordinal number for 97.
  • not merely sth — You use not merely before the less important of two contrasting statements, as a way of emphasizing the more important statement.
  • of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
  • on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
  • parallel forth — Forth For the MPP.
  • pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
  • port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
  • primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • promethea moth — a silkworm moth, Callosamia promethea, having reddish-brown wings, each with a border of white or yellow, the larvae of which feed on spicebush and other lauraceous plants.
  • prominent moth — any moth of the family Notodontidae characterized by tufts of scales on the back edge of the forewing that stand up prominently at rest and give the group its name. It includes the puss moth and buff-tip as well as those with prominent in the name
  • rate of growth — the rate at which an economy grows
  • sailing length — a measurement of a yacht, comprising its length on the water line as well as certain measurements taken from the overhangs at bow and stern.
  • scorched earth — military policy: destroying enemy crops
  • seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • shalach manoth — the practice of giving gifts to one another or to the needy on Purim.
  • shear strength — the degree to which a material or bond is able to resist shear
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • shillingsworth — the amount that can be purchased for a shilling
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
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