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

  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • early check-in — An early check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in earlier than the normal time.
  • 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
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • 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.
  • faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
  • 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.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • 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.
  • hairline crack — a very fine crack
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
  • hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
  • harlequinesque — in the manner of a harlequin.
  • 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 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.
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