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14-letter words containing h, e, s, p

  • deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • diamond-shaped — rhombic
  • diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
  • diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • displenishment — the act of displenishing
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • ego psychology — the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder
  • electrophorese — (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
  • 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
  • emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
  • emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • endophenotypes — Plural form of endophenotype.
  • ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • erythropoiesis — The production of red blood cells.
  • euphoniousness — The quality or state of being euphonious.
  • 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
  • euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • explosion shot — a shot used in hitting a ball from a sand trap, in which the sand just behind the ball rather than the ball itself is struck with full force
  • fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • 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.
  • fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
  • fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
  • 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 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.
  • floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
  • go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
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