14-letter words containing e, l, p, h
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- edaphic climax — a localized climax community that may differ from the surrounding climax vegetation by reason of slightly differing soil type, exposure to sun and wind, drainage, etc.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
- ego psychology — the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder
- electrophorese — (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
- electrotherapy — The use of electric currents passed through the body to stimulate nerves and muscles, chiefly in the treatment of various forms of paralysis.
- elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
- elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
- elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
- elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
- empathetically — In an empathetic way.
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
- encephalopathy — A disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood).
- epenthetically — In an epenthetic manner; by means of epenthesis.
- ephemeral port — (networking) A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- epithelialized — Simple past tense and past participle of epithelialize.
- epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
- epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- explosion shot — a shot used in hitting a ball from a sand trap, in which the sand just behind the ball rather than the ball itself is struck with full force
- 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.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- 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.
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- 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 spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
- galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- 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 alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother