14-letter words containing d, o, n, t, h
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
- in other words — that is to say
- in short order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
- inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
- kinetheodolite — a type of theodolite containing a cine camera instead of a telescope and giving continuous film of a moving target together with a record of its altitude and azimuth: used in tracking a missile, satellite, etc
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- methanoic acid — systematic name for formic acid
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- mind the store — to tend to business
- neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.
- nephrectomized — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- nonestablished — without the official support of the government
- nonhalogenated — not containing halogen
- north branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- north canadian — river flowing from NE N.Mex. east & southeast into the Canadian River in E Okla.: 760 mi (1,223 km)
- north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
- north tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 190 800 (2003 est). Area: 84 sq km (32 sq miles)
- northeastwards — northeastward.
- northern dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
- northwestwards — northwestward.
- notched collar — a collar forming a notch with the lapels of a garment at the seam where collar and lapels join.
- off the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- on the downlow — not widely known
- on the rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
- on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
- one-hit wonder — a singer, composer or group that only ever has one successful piece
- open deathtrap — (abuse) An abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's Open DeskTop. The funniest part is that this was coined by SCO's own developers. Compare AIDX, Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor, ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX.
- osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
- out the window — discarded or wasted
- outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.