14-letter words containing h, a, i, r, s
- heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- health service — system of medical care
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
- heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
- heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
- heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
- heat-resistant — able to resist and remain unaffected by heat
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hello, sailor! — (jargon) Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello, world; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor"). Originally from the traditional hooker's greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of course.
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- henry j kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
- heresiographer — a person who writes about heresy
- hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- heterographies — Plural form of heterography.
- heterokaryosis — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
- heteroplasties — Plural form of heteroplasty.
- highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
- historicalness — The quality of being historical.
- historiography — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
- histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
- holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- horsehair worm — any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds.
- horsetail tree — beefwood (def 1).
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hospital drama — a TV programme or series based on events in a hospital
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hospital train — a military train equipped to transport wounded troops to a hospital.
- housing market — property trade
- human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
- hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
- hyperaesthesia — an abnormally acute sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch; algesia.
- hyperaesthesic — relating to an extreme capacity for feeling
- hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
- hyperkeratosis — Pathology. proliferation of the cells of the cornea. a thickening of the horny layer of the skin.