15-letter words containing h, e, n, r, i
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
- kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
- knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
- knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
- knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
- learner's chain — an inexperienced team of slaughtermen working in a freezing works
- left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
- legion of honor — a French order of distinction instituted in 1802 by Napoleon with membership being granted for meritorious civil or military services.
- leonid brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich [ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- liechtensteiner — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
- maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
- maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
- maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
- mannerheim line — a zone of Finnish fortification erected along part of the border between Finland and Russia before the Finno-Russian War.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
- master mechanic — a mechanic, especially one who is thoroughly skilled, in charge of other mechanics.
- measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- mechlorethamine — a nitrogen mustard, C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and certain other cancers.
- merchant marine — the vessels of a nation that are engaged in commerce.
- merchant prince — a very wealthy or influential merchant.
- merchantability — The state of being merchantable.
- metanitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
- microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
- misapprehension — misunderstanding.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
- montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
- morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
- morphophonemics — Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- naismith's rule — a rule of thumb for calculating the time needed for a climbing expedition, allowing 1 hour for every 3 miles of distance plus 1 hour for every 2000 feet of height
- napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.