14-letter words containing h, e, a, d, l
- idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
- invisible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- lady's-thistle — a composite plant, Silybum marianum, of the Mediterranean region, having glossy, spiny leaves and purplish-red flower heads.
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
- language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
- lead the field — If you say that someone leads the field in a particular activity, you mean that they are better, more active, or more successful than everyone else who is involved in it.
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- leland hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
- life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
- like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
- little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- maitre d'hotel — a headwaiter.
- marble orchard — cemetery.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- matched sample — a sample in which the individuals selected for analysis share all properties except that under investigation
- maternal death — the death of a woman while pregnant or shortly after childbirth or an abortion
- medal of honor — The Medal of Honor is a medal that is given to members of the U.S. armed forces who have shown special courage or bravery in battle.
- medical ethics — the code of behaviour considered to be correct for members of the medical profession
- medical school — university where medical degrees are taught
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- methodological — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- moosehead lake — a lake in central Maine. 42 miles (68 km) long; 300 sq. mi. (780 sq. km).
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- muddleheadedly — In a muddleheaded manner.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.
- new netherland — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
- nonestablished — without the official support of the government