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14-letter words containing n, s, h, e, l

  • chiltern hills — a range of low chalk hills in SE England extending northwards from the Thames valley. Highest point: 260 m (852 ft)
  • chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
  • chinese puzzle — an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes
  • chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
  • controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
  • convent school — A convent school is a school where many of the teachers are nuns.
  • coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
  • cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • displenishment — the act of displenishing
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
  • embellishingly — in an embellishing manner
  • embellishments — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
  • emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • english muffin — crumpet
  • english saddle — a lightweight saddle with a low cantle and pommel and no horn, designed to place the rider's weight forward onto the withers
  • english setter — bird dog
  • english sonnet — a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
  • english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • enlightenments — Plural form of enlightenment.
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
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