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14-letter words containing e, r, y, t, h

  • great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
  • half-heartedly — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hammer away at — persist
  • hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
  • hattie carawayHattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heavy breather — a person who breathes stertorously or with difficulty
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • henry st. johnHenry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • henry the lion — ?1129–95, duke of Saxony (1142–81). His ambitions led to conflict with the Holy Roman Emperors, notably Frederick Barbarossa
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • hereditability — heritable.
  • heterokaryosis — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
  • heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
  • heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
  • heterozygosity — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • histochemistry — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
  • 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.
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
  • horn of plenty — cornucopia.
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
  • hydroextractor — a device that dries things by means of the material to be dried being spun around the device's central axis
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hydrothermally — By hydrothermal means.
  • hydroxyapatite — a mineral, Ca 10 (PO 4) 6 OH 2 , that is the principal storage form of calcium and phosphorus in bone.
  • hyper-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hyperaesthesia — an abnormally acute sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch; algesia.
  • hyperaesthesic — relating to an extreme capacity for feeling
  • hyperbatically — in a hyperbatic manner
  • hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
  • hyperchromatic — Hyperchromic.
  • hypercorrectly — In a hypercorrect manner.
  • hypercriticism — criticism that is carping or unduly harsh.
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