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14-letter words containing a, m, h, e, r, s

  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • hammer crusher — A hammer crusher is a crusher in which a hammer hits the material that is being crushed.
  • 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)
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • hardshell clam — quahog.
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • headmastership — The role or position of headmaster.
  • headmistresses — Plural form of headmistress.
  • health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
  • 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.
  • hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
  • heterosomatous — (of fish) having an abnormal or asymmetrical body type
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
  • horsehair worm — any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds.
  • 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.
  • humphreys peak — the highest peak in Arizona, in the N, in the San Francisco Mountains: 12,633 feet (3851 meters).
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypermicrosoma — dwarfishness.
  • hypernephromas — Plural form of hypernephroma.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
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