14-letter words containing c, h, o, l
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- hanging scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- hash collision — (programming) (Or "hash clash") When two different keys hash to the same value, i.e. to the same location in a hash table.
- have a lock on — to be sure of winning, gaining, or controlling
- health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- 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 mom — 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.
- heliosciophyte — any plant that grows in the shade, but thrives more in the sun
- hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
- helminthologic — of or pertaining to helminthology
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- hemicelluloses — Plural form of hemicellulose.
- hemipelvectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the pelvis, and the leg on that side.
- hemlock looper — the larva of a geometrid moth, Lambdina fiscellaria, common in some areas of North America and a serious pest of various trees, as hemlock, Douglas fir, balsam spruce, and oak.
- hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
- hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
- hero's welcome — a very enthusiastic reception from a group of people who show their admiration for something good that you have done
- heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
- heteroclitical — (obsolete) Anomalous, heteroclite.
- heterolecithal — having an unequal distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
- hierographical — hierographic
- high-card pool — red dog.
- histologically — In an histological manner.
- historicalness — The quality of being historical.
- histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
- hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
- hollow-cheeked — having sunken cheeks, as from thinness
- holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- holy communion — communion (def 1).
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
- holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
- home schooling — Home schooling is the practice of educating your child at home rather than in a school.
- homeric simile — a simile developed over several lines of verse, especially one used in an epic poem.
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- horace greeley — Horace, 1811–72, U.S. journalist, editor, and political leader.
- horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
- horticulturist — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.