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14-letter words containing d, o, t, h, e, n

  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endophenotypes — Plural form of endophenotype.
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • 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.
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • have a mind to — think about doing
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • 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.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
  • hold the phone — not hang up
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
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