14-letter words containing l, y, e, h
- exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
- firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
- flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
- foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
- fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
- freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- 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.
- galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- 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.
- glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
- go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- h.g.j. moseley — Henry Gwyn Jeffreys [gwin] /gwɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1915, English physicist: pioneer in x-ray spectroscopy.
- half-heartedly — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
- hanging valley — a valley, the lower end of which opens high above a shore, usually caused by the rapid erosion of a cliff.
- happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
- he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
- health physics — the branch of physics concerned with the health and safety of people in medical, scientific, and industrial work, esp with protection from the biological effects of ionizing radiation
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
- 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
- hemipelvectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the pelvis, and the leg on that side.
- henry the lion — ?1129–95, duke of Saxony (1142–81). His ambitions led to conflict with the Holy Roman Emperors, notably Frederick Barbarossa
- hereditability — heritable.
- heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
- heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
- heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
- hierarchically — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
- hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
- highly charged — electrical
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- hobbledehoydom — the condition of being a hobbledehoy
- hobbledehoyish — of or like a hobbledehoy
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.