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14-letter words containing h, o, u, s, e, n

  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • 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 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
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • 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.
  • hognosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
  • honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • honours course — a degree course at honours level
  • honours degree — a degree at honours level
  • horrendousness — the state or condition of being horrendous or dreadful
  • 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.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
  • housing estate — housing development.
  • housing market — property trade
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
  • humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
  • humoursomeness — the quality of being humoursome
  • hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
  • hyperconscious — acutely aware.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • mount rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
  • neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
  • neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
  • non-exhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
  • non-homogenous — Biology. corresponding in structure because of a common origin.
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