14-letter words containing n, a, o, s, h, e
- north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
- north-easterly — A north-easterly point, area, or direction is to the north-east or towards the north-east.
- northeasterner — a native or inhabitant of the northeast.
- northeastwards — northeastward.
- northwestwards — northwestward.
- oceanographers — Plural form of oceanographer.
- oehlenschläger — Adam Gottlob (ˈadam ˈɡɔtlɔp). 1779–1850, Danish romantic poet and dramatist
- off one's head — If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous.
- on one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
- on the instant — immediately; without delay
- on the surface — to all appearances
- onchocerciasis — an infestation with filarial worms of the genus Onchocerca, common in tropical America and Africa, transmitted by black flies, and characterized by nodules under the skin, an itchy rash, eye lesions, and in severe cases, elephantiasis.
- one's head off — loudly or excessively
- one-horse race — if a contest is described as a one-horse race, it is thought that one person or thing will definitely win it
- one-upsmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
- one-woman show — a show or performance performed by one woman
- openhandedness — The characteristic of being openhanded.
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
- ordinary share — British. a share of common stock.
- orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
- orphan process — (operating system) A Unix process whose original parent has terminated and which has become a child of "init(1)". Compare zombie.
- osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
- outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
- overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
- psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- rhode islander — a person born or living in Rhode Island
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
- rose of sharon — Also called althea. a widely cultivated shrub or small tree, Hibiscus syriacus, of the mallow family, having showy white, reddish or purplish flowers.
- royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
- saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
- schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
- sconcheon arch — an archway that includes the sconcheons of a door or window.