14-letter words containing h, a, s, t, l
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
- disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
- elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
- elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
- elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- eschatological — Pertaining to eschatology.
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- 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
- flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flashing point — flash point (def 1).
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.