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14-letter words containing e, p, i, h, a, n

  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
  • spinthariscope — an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by picking up sparks of light from alpha particles.
  • splash erosion — erosion caused by the impact of falling raindrops.
  • sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
  • the hispanidad — the common values and cultural attitudes shared between and linking Spain and the other Spanish-speaking countries of the world
  • the palatinate — either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse
  • the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • therianthropic — being partly bestial and partly human in form.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • tip one's hand — the act of tipping.
  • triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
  • unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unsophisticate — not sophisticated
  • wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
  • wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
  • whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
  • whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
  • white elephant — a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.
  • whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
  • with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
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