14-letter words containing o, u, t, h, r
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- court of honor — the planning body of a girl-scout troop, composed of patrol leaders, the troop scribe, the troop treasurer, and the adult troop leader.
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- cruft together — (jargon) To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drummond light — calcium light.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- follow through — the act of following.
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
- fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
- fourth of july — Independence Day.
- fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
- front of house — restaurant
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- get through to — reach: on phone
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations