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14-letter words containing h, i, l, e, r

  • clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
  • colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
  • comprehendible — comprehensible
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
  • czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • dehydroretinol — (organic compound) A derivative of retinol having an extra double bond; vitamin A2.
  • delphic oracle — the oracle of Apollo at Delphi that gave answers held by the ancient Greeks to be of great authority but also noted for their ambiguity
  • demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
  • deparochialize — to make parochial.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • diethylpropion — a sympathomimetic substance, C 13 H 19 NO⋅HCl, used as an appetite suppressor and a short-term adjunct in the management of certain kinds of obesity.
  • dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • dimethyl ether — Dimethyl ether is a compound used as a propellant in aerosol canisters.
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • door-key child — latchkey child.
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • early check-in — An early check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in earlier than the normal time.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
  • eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
  • electric chair — execution apparatus
  • electric light — a light powered by electricity
  • electric shock — electric current entering the body
  • electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • english setter — bird dog
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
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