14-letter words containing h, o, t, a
- ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
- ichthyological — Of or pertaining to ichthyology. Adjective form of ichthyology.
- ichthyophagist — a person who eats or subsists on fish.
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
- idiopathically — In an idiopathic sense or manner.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- in all honesty — You say in all honesty when you are saying something that might be disappointing or upsetting, and you want to soften its effect by emphasizing your sincerity.
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- in one's heart — secretly; fundamentally
- in the face of — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- in the name of — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
- instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- into the black — into a profitable condition financially
- isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- james stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- john atanasoff — John Vincent Atanasoff
- john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
- kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
- khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
- knotty rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- larmor theorem — the theorem that an electron subjected only to the force exerted by the nucleus about which it is moving will undergo Larmor precession but no other change in motion when placed in a magnetic field.
- late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lithochromatic — relating to or produced by painting on stone
- lithographical — Of or pertaining to lithography.