14-letter words containing h, u, a, s, t
- cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- 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
- dust and ashes — something that is very disappointing
- 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.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- east-southeast — the point on a compass midway between east and southeast.
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- 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.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- harry s truman — Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ("Bess") 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).
- harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
- hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- 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.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body