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14-letter words containing i, n, t, h, r, a

  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • heat-resistant — able to resist and remain unaffected by heat
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
  • herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • himalayan tahr — any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
  • hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
  • holy matrimony — marriage
  • horizontal bar — on a bar chart
  • horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hospital train — a military train equipped to transport wounded troops to a hospital.
  • housing market — property trade
  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyper-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hyperemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
  • hyperlactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
  • hypernatraemia — a heightened concentration of sodium in the blood
  • hypertechnical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
  • hyperventilate — to be afflicted with hyperventilation; breathe abnormally fast and deep.
  • hypnotherapist — A practitioner of hypnotherapy.
  • ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
  • ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • in one's heart — secretly; fundamentally
  • in parenthesis — You say 'in parenthesis' to indicate that you are about to add something before going back to the main topic.
  • in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • inheritability — capable of being inherited.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
  • internal rhyme — a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
  • interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
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