14-letter words containing h, s, t, r, e
- elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
- elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
- elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- english setter — bird dog
- ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- erythrocytosis — Polycythemia.
- erythropoiesis — The production of red blood cells.
- ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- 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
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
- freshness date — the last date, usually specified on the label or packaging, that a food, as bread, is considered fresh, although it may be sold, ordinarily at reduced prices, or eaten after that date.
- freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
- from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
- front of house — restaurant
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.