14-letter words containing h, u, r, l
- circular pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- drummond light — calcium light.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- 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.
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- follow through — the act of following.
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fourth of july — Independence Day.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- french cruller — cruller (def 2).
- french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- furfuraldehyde — a colorless, oily liquid, C 5 H 4 O 2 , having an aromatic odor, obtained from bran, sugar, wood, corncobs, or the like, by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics and as a solvent in the refining of lubricating oils.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.