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14-letter words containing a, i, r, h, e

  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
  • 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
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
  • hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
  • heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
  • hello, sailor! — (jargon)   Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello, world; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor"). Originally from the traditional hooker's greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of course.
  • hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • henry j kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
  • hephthemimeral — of or relating to a hephthemimer
  • 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.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • hereditability — heritable.
  • hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
  • heresiographer — a person who writes about heresy
  • hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
  • hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
  • 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.
  • herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • heteroaromatic — a heterocyclic aromatic compound.
  • heteroclitical — (obsolete) Anomalous, heteroclite.
  • heterographies — Plural form of heterography.
  • heterokaryosis — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • heterolecithal — having an unequal distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
  • heteroplasties — Plural form of heteroplasty.
  • heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
  • hierarchically — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
  • hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
  • hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
  • hierographical — hierographic
  • highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
  • highly charged — electrical
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
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