14-letter words containing h, o, t, u, n
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
- do the needful — to perform a necessary task
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drummond light — calcium light.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- 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.
- front of house — restaurant
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- 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.
- guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
- harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
- 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
- heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- 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.
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
- horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.