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14-letter words containing h, e, t, a, i, r

  • hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hypertechnical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
  • hypertrophical — relating to hypertrophy
  • hyperventilate — to be afflicted with hyperventilation; breathe abnormally fast and deep.
  • hypnotherapist — A practitioner of hypnotherapy.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
  • ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
  • idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • in one's heart — secretly; fundamentally
  • in parenthesis — You say 'in parenthesis' to indicate that you are about to add something before going back to the main topic.
  • in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • inheritability — capable of being inherited.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
  • internal rhyme — a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
  • interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • lechatelierite — a mineral, an amorphous form of silica formed by the fusion by heat of silica and found in fulgurites.
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
  • little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
  • little theater — generally noncommercial drama, usually of an experimental nature and directed at a limited audience.
  • little theatre — small venue for amateur dramatics
  • lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
  • magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • maitre d'hotel — a headwaiter.
  • major mitchell — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, with a white-and-pink plumage
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