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14-letter words containing a, n, o, t, h

  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
  • ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • 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.
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • g-strophanthin — ouabain.
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
  • go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
  • haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
  • hair extension — attached length of hair
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • half-lap joint — a joint between two timbers halved together so that a flush surface results.
  • half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
  • hamilton bassoHamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
  • hamilton inlet — an arm of the Atlantic in SE Labrador, an estuary of the Churchill River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
  • hamiltonianism — the political principles or doctrines held by or associated with Alexander Hamilton, especially those stressing a strong central government and protective tariffs.
  • 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.
  • hangman's knot — a slip noose for hanging a person, usually having eight or nine turns around the rope.
  • haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
  • haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
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