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14-letter words containing h, m, r

  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
  • ephemeral port — (networking)   A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
  • 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 It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
  • ephemeropteran — of or relating to the Ephemeroptera
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
  • farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • feminine rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
  • femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
  • fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
  • fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
  • fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
  • 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.
  • flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • for the moment — for now
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
  • free-machining — (of certain metals) readily machinable at high speeds with low force.
  • french academy — an association of 40 scholars and men and women of letters, established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu and devoted chiefly to preserving the purity of the French language and establishing standards of proper usage.
  • french morocco — French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
  • from the floor — during the time of a game when active defense is permitted
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • geochronometry — the determination of the absolute age of earth materials, as by radiometric dating.
  • geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
  • geomorphogenic — relating to geomorphogeny
  • geothermometer — a thermometer for measuring temperatures below the surface of the earth
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
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