14-letter words containing o, t, l, i, h
- hostile sexism — a theory that sexism toward women is multidimensional, one form (hostile sexism) reflecting negative views of women who challenge traditional gender roles, and the other form (benevolent sexism) reflecting positive views of women who conform to these roles.
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- hotel de ville — a city hall.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
- hydrolytically — By means of hydrolysis.
- hydrophilicity — (uncountable) The condition of being hydrophilic.
- hyper-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- hyperemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
- hyperlactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- hypertrophical — relating to hypertrophy
- hypocoristical — (rare) synonym of hypocoristic.
- hypocritically — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- hypostatically — In a hypostatic manner.
- hypothetically — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
- ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
- ichthyological — Of or pertaining to ichthyology. Adjective form of ichthyology.
- idiopathically — In an idiopathic sense or manner.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- in all honesty — You say in all honesty when you are saying something that might be disappointing or upsetting, and you want to soften its effect by emphasizing your sincerity.
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- into the black — into a profitable condition financially
- involute teeth — (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.
- isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
- khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
- kill the clock — an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
- kinetheodolite — a type of theodolite containing a cine camera instead of a telescope and giving continuous film of a moving target together with a record of its altitude and azimuth: used in tracking a missile, satellite, etc
- kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.