14-letter words containing h, e, t, a, i, r
- make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- mariana trench — a depression in the ocean floor of the Pacific, S and W of the Mariana Islands: site of greatest known depth of any ocean. 36,201 feet (11,034 meters) deep.
- maternity home — a house in which a pregnant woman can live until her baby is born, esp one for women who became pregnant out of wedlock and whose baby is going to be put up for adoption
- matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
- mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metachromatism — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metamorphosise — (UK, nonstandard) To metamorphose.
- metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- metaphorically — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
- metatheatrical — Of or pertaining to metatheatre.
- methane series — alkane series.
- milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- mixed metaphor — the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”.
- motor mechanic — a mechanic who maintains and repairs cars and other road vehicles
- mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- narcosynthesis — a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.
- news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- noninheritable — Not inheritable.
- nontheoretical — not confined to the theoretical realm; actual
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- nonthreatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
- north american — the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 feet (6187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 sq. mi. (24,242,400 sq. km).
- north ayrshire — a council area of W central Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde: comprises the N part of the historical county of Ayrshire, including the Isle of Arran; formerly part of Strathclyde Region (1975–96): chiefly agricultural, with fishing and tourism. Administrative centre: Irvine. Pop: 136 030 (2003 est). Area: 884 sq km (341 sq miles)
- north germanic — the subbranch of Germanic that includes the languages of Scandinavia and Iceland.
- northern dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- oceanic trench — a long narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust, usually lying above a subduction zone
- omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
- orthonormalize — (mathematics) To make a set of vectors both orthogonal and normalized.
- osteoarthritic — Affected with osteoarthritis.
- osteoarthritis — the most common form of arthritis, usually occurring after middle age, marked by chronic breakdown of cartilage in the joints leading to pain, stiffness, and swelling.
- osteoarthrosis — chronic, noninflammatory arthritis.
- overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.