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14-letter words containing h, o, n, u, r

  • county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
  • court of honor — the planning body of a girl-scout troop, composed of patrol leaders, the troop scribe, the troop treasurer, and the adult troop leader.
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • drummond light — calcium light.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • front of house — restaurant
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • homeward bound — going home
  • honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
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