14-letter words containing h, a, r, l
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- furfuraldehyde — a colorless, oily liquid, C 5 H 4 O 2 , having an aromatic odor, obtained from bran, sugar, wood, corncobs, or the like, by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics and as a solvent in the refining of lubricating oils.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- 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.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
- glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- 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)
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- grammar school — an elementary school.
- graph coloring — graph colouring
- 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 alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- haarlemmermeer — a city in W Netherlands.
- hadrian's wall — a wall of defense for the Roman province of Britain, constructed by Hadrian between Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne.
- hagiographical — Hagiographic.
- 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.
- hairline crack — a very fine crack
- haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
- half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-evergreen — having leaves which may or may not remain green throughout the year
- half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
- half-heartedly — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
- half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- halicarnassian — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- hamilcar barca — c270–228 b.c, Carthaginian general and statesman (father of Hannibal).
- 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.
- hanging scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- happy as larry — extremely happy
- hardshell clam — quahog.
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.