15-letter words containing o, h, a, r
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere
- ironstone china — a tough durable earthenware
- isothermal-line — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
- javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
- john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
- kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- katathermometer — a thermometer used to measure the cooling power of ambient air
- keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
- latter prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, comprising those books which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets and which are divided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets
- lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
- learn the ropes — become familiar with sth
- length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- literary theory — the systematic analysis and study of literature using general principles
- lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
- local authority — council, local government
- logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
- longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
- lord chancellor — the highest judicial officer of the British crown: law adviser of the ministry, keeper of the great seal, presiding officer in the House of Lords, etc.
- lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
- louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- low earth orbit — (communications) (LEO) The kind of orbit used by communications satellites that will offer high bandwidth for video on demand, television, and Internet communications. A satellite in LEO, in contrast to one in a geostationary orbit, is not in a fixed position relative to the Earth's surface so several satellites are required to provide continuous service.
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
- mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- make the effort — try
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- malayan camphor — borneol.
- man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- man-of-war fish — a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.