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14-letter words containing h, u, m, p, e

  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • posthumousness — the fact of being posthumous
  • prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
  • pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • put on the map — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • put the moz on — to jinx
  • radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • tomato ketchup — sauce made from tomatoes
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • ubv photometry — the photometric measurement of the color index of a star, using ultraviolet, blue, and visual (yellow) filters.
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • uncomprehended — not comprehended or understood
  • underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
  • unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • up to the mark — acceptably good
  • xiphihumeralis — a long pectoral muscle found only in felines
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