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14-letter words containing e, n, s, h, r

  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hardhandedness — the condition of having hard or thickened skin on the hands due to manual work
  • hardheadedness — The characteristic of being hardheaded.
  • harlequinesque — in the manner of a harlequin.
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • 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.
  • heart of stone — lack of compassion
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • heat-resistant — able to resist and remain unaffected by heat
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
  • henry bessemerSir Henry, 1813–98, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process.
  • henry j kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
  • henry st. johnHenry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
  • heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
  • hinoki cypress — an evergreen tree, Chamaecyparis obtusa, of Japan, having scalelike leaves and orange-brown cones, grown for timber and as an ornamental.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • home ownership — the situation of owning one's house or flat, or of having a mortgage on it
  • honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • honours course — a degree course at honours level
  • honours degree — a degree at honours level
  • hooker's green — a medium green to strong yellowish green.
  • horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
  • horrendousness — the state or condition of being horrendous or dreadful
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • housing market — property trade
  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
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