14-letter words containing e, p, i, n, h
- hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- hypnotherapist — A practitioner of hypnotherapy.
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
- immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
- impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- in high places — People in high places are people who have powerful and influential positions in a government, society, or organization.
- in parenthesis — You say 'in parenthesis' to indicate that you are about to add something before going back to the main topic.
- in the picture — informed about a given situation
- in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
- inapprehension — lack of apprehension.
- inapprehensive — not apprehensive (often followed by of).
- inapproachable — not approachable.
- indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
- interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
- knight templar — Templar.
- lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
- lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
- latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- leu enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
- lip microphone — a microphone designed and shaped to be held close to the mouth, for use in noisy environments
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- met enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
- minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
- misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
- miss the point — fail to understand
- monophthongise — Alternative spelling of monophthongize.
- monophthongize — to change into or pronounce as a monophthong.
- morphophonemic — noting or pertaining to morphophonemics or morphophonemes.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
- mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- naphthoquinone — (organic compound) Either of two isomers of polycyclic aromatic ketones derived from naphthalene.