14-letter words containing l, o, u, e, r
- fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- 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.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- full professor — professor (def 1).
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
- 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.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
- heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
- heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
- holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- 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
- house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
- household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
- household word — a familiar name, phrase, saying, etc.; byword: The advertising campaign is designed to make this new product a household word.
- humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
- hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
- hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.