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14-letter words containing e, t, h, n, o, i

  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • election night — the evening when the votes from an election are being counted
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • english sonnet — a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
  • enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
  • epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
  • epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • erythropoietin — A hormone secreted by the kidneys that increases the rate of production of red blood cells in response to falling levels of oxygen in the tissues.
  • ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
  • ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
  • exhibitionists — Plural form of exhibitionist.
  • 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
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
  • ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
  • go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
  • hair extension — attached length of hair
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • hamilton inlet — an arm of the Atlantic in SE Labrador, an estuary of the Churchill River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • have a mind to — think about doing
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