14-letter words containing h, o, l, a, n
- chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
- chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
- church, alonzo — Alonzo Church
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
- cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
- coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
- contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
- coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
- encephalopathy — A disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood).
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
- epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- flashing point — flash point (def 1).