14-letter words containing h, o, l, e, r, s
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- modern english — the English language since c1475.
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- mortise chisel — framing chisel.
- motherlessness — The state or condition of being motherless.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- neighborliness — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonphilosopher — a person who is not a philosopher
- norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
- north-easterly — A north-easterly point, area, or direction is to the north-east or towards the north-east.
- north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.
- northern isles — Orkney and Shetland
- not merely sth — You use not merely before the less important of two contrasting statements, as a way of emphasizing the more important statement.
- nursery school — a prekindergarten school for children from about three to five years of age.
- oehlenschläger — Adam Gottlob (ˈadam ˈɡɔtlɔp). 1779–1850, Danish romantic poet and dramatist
- orthodox sleep — dreamless sleep, characterized by a slow alpha rhythm of brain waves and no marked physiological changes.
- orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).
- overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
- peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phenolic resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
- philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
- philosopheress — a philosopher who is a woman
- photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- plesiochronous — (communications) Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
- polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
- polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
- polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
- potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
- prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
- pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
- pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns