14-letter words containing e, u, l, o
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
- holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
- household gods — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
- household name — a person or thing that is very well known
- household soap — a substance that you use with water for washing clothes, removing stains, cleaning floors, etc
- household word — a familiar name, phrase, saying, etc.; byword: The advertising campaign is designed to make this new product a household word.
- humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
- hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
- hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
- immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- inconclusively — In an inconclusive manner.
- inconsequently — In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
- interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
- internucleonic — internuclear
- interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
- intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
- involute teeth — (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.
- irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
- irresoluteness — The state of being irresolute.
- issue a policy — If an insurer issues a policy, they create an insurance policy and provide it to a customer.
- jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
- journal intime — a personal or private diary.
- junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.