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14-letter words containing h, e, l, p, i

  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the palaeozoic — the Palaeozoic era
  • the palatinate — either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse
  • the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
  • the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
  • thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
  • three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
  • tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
  • triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
  • visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
  • web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
  • well-published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
  • whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
  • white elephant — a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.
  • worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
  • xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
  • xerophytically — As a xerophyte.
  • xiphihumeralis — a long pectoral muscle found only in felines
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