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14-letter words containing a, r, o, u, s, e

  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • 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.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • 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.
  • heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
  • heterosomatous — (of fish) having an abnormal or asymmetrical body type
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
  • housing market — property trade
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • intracutaneous — within the skin.
  • kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
  • lower silurian — Ordovician
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • macromolecules — Plural form of macromolecule.
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • macrostructure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
  • marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
  • measure swords — to duel with swords
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
  • metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
  • microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
  • microcephalous — Microcephalic.
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