14-letter words containing p, h, r, e, n, o
- hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- hyperresonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
- hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
- hypersonically — In a hypersonic way.
- hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
- hypnotherapist — A practitioner of hypnotherapy.
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
- hypomenorrhoea — an extremely light menstrual bleeding
- immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
- impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
- inapprehension — lack of apprehension.
- inapproachable — not approachable.
- interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- 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
- know the ropes — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- lip microphone — a microphone designed and shaped to be held close to the mouth, for use in noisy environments
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- mechanotherapy — curative treatment by mechanical means.
- membranophones — Plural form of membranophone.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
- morphophonemes — Plural form of morphophoneme.
- morphophonemic — noting or pertaining to morphophonemics or morphophonemes.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- moth repellent — a chemical produced and sold to keep moths off clothes
- mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- nephrectomized — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- nephrotoxicity — The state or condition of being nephrotoxic.
- neurohypnology — a name given to hypnosis by the Scottish physician Braid
- neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
- non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonphilosopher — a person who is not a philosopher
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.