14-letter words containing o, d, r, l, e
- 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.
- 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.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- 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.
- helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- helicopter pad — landing area
- hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
- hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
- 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.
- hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
- hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
- hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
- hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
- hydrochlorides — Plural form of hydrochloride.
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- hydrothermally — By hydrothermal means.
- hydroxyproline — a nutritionally nonessential amino acid, C 5 H 9 NO 3 , found chiefly in collagen.
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
- ill-considered — lacking thorough consideration; ill-suited; unwise.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
- imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
- in holy orders — ordained
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- indre-et-loire — a department in W central France. 2378 sq. mi. (6160 sq. km). Capital: Tours.
- interelectrode — existing between multiple electrodes
- intermodillion — a space between two modillions.
- irrationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of irrationalise.
- irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
- isodiametrical — isodiametric
- jacob's ladder — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. caeruleum (or P. van-bruntiae), having blue, cup-shaped flowers and paired leaflets in a ladderlike arrangement.
- knotted clover — a British wildflower, Trifolium striatum, an annual clover with pale pink flowers
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite