14-letter words containing h, o, p, e
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- ego psychology — the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder
- electrophorese — (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
- electrotherapy — The use of electric currents passed through the body to stimulate nerves and muscles, chiefly in the treatment of various forms of paralysis.
- elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
- emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- 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).
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- endophenotypes — Plural form of endophenotype.
- 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.
- ephemeropteran — of or relating to the Ephemeroptera
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
- epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- erythropoiesis — The production of red blood cells.
- erythropoietic — Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
- erythropoietin — A hormone secreted by the kidneys that increases the rate of production of red blood cells in response to falling levels of oxygen in the tissues.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
- euphoniousness — The quality or state of being euphonious.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- 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.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- explosion shot — a shot used in hitting a ball from a sand trap, in which the sand just behind the ball rather than the ball itself is struck with full force
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
- frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
- french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries