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14-letter words containing d, o, l, h

  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • half-concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
  • half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
  • 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.
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • have a load on — to be intoxicated
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • 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 pad — landing area
  • hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
  • high-card pool — red dog.
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • hobbledehoydom — the condition of being a hobbledehoy
  • hobbledehoyish — of or like a hobbledehoy
  • hold one's own — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
  • hold sb's hand — If you ask someone to hold your hand at an event that you are worried about, you ask them to support you by being there with you.
  • hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
  • hold the phone — not hang up
  • hold to ransom — to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
  • hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • holiday season — period: November to January
  • holland finish — an oil and sizing or starch finish applied to cotton fabrics to increase their opacity and strength.
  • 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
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • honeydew melon — a variety of the winter melon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a smooth, pale-green rind and sweet, juicy, light-green flesh.
  • hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
  • hopfield model — Hopfield network
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hospital drama — a TV programme or series based on events in a hospital
  • hotel de ville — a city hall.
  • house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
  • household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
  • household gods — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
  • household soap — a substance that you use with water for washing clothes, removing stains, cleaning floors, etc
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