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14-letter words containing a, t, h, l, i

  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • flight capital — funds transferred abroad in order to avoid high taxes or to provide for a person's needs if flight from the country becomes necessary
  • flight feather — one of the large, stiff feathers of the wing and tail of a bird that are essential to flight.
  • 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
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
  • haematological — Alternative spelling of hematological.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • half-lap joint — a joint between two timbers halved together so that a flush surface results.
  • 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-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
  • happenstantial — Being or relating to happenstance.
  • hasta la vista — so long; (I'll) see you again
  • heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
  • health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
  • health physics — the branch of physics concerned with the health and safety of people in medical, scientific, and industrial work, esp with protection from the biological effects of ionizing radiation
  • health service — system of medical care
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