14-letter words containing h, e, r, s, i, o
- erythropoiesis — The production of red blood cells.
- ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
- fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
- 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
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- hair extension — attached length of hair
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
- heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
- heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- hello, sailor! — (jargon) Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello, world; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor"). Originally from the traditional hooker's greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of course.
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
- heresiographer — a person who writes about heresy
- hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.