14-letter words containing l, e, t, o, s
- health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
- 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.
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- heliosciophyte — any plant that grows in the shade, but thrives more in the sun
- hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
- herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
- heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
- heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
- heteroplasties — Plural form of heteroplasty.
- heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
- historicalness — The quality of being historical.
- holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
- holometabolism — The complete metamorphosis of an insect.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- horsetail tree — beefwood (def 1).
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hostile sexism — a theory that sexism toward women is multidimensional, one form (hostile sexism) reflecting negative views of women who challenge traditional gender roles, and the other form (benevolent sexism) reflecting positive views of women who conform to these roles.
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
- hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- impassionately — filled with passion; impassioned.
- in all honesty — You say in all honesty when you are saying something that might be disappointing or upsetting, and you want to soften its effect by emphasizing your sincerity.
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.
- inconsequently — In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence.
- inconsistently — lacking in harmony between the different parts or elements; self-contradictory: an inconsistent story.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- inflectionless — Without inflection.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- intensionality — (logic, mathematics) The condition of having an intension.
- intercessional — an act or instance of interceding.
- interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
- interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- internationals — Plural form of international.
- interpolations — Plural form of interpolation.
- interrelations — Plural form of interrelation.