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14-letter words containing h, a, i, r, t, l

  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
  • electric chair — execution apparatus
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flight feather — one of the large, stiff feathers of the wing and tail of a bird that are essential to flight.
  • 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.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • 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.
  • health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
  • 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.
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
  • hephthemimeral — of or relating to a hephthemimer
  • 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.
  • hereditability — heritable.
  • hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
  • herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
  • heteroclitical — (obsolete) Anomalous, heteroclite.
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