14-letter words containing r, h, n, e, a
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- hammerstein ii — Oscar. 1895–1960, US librettist and songwriter: collaborated with the composer Richard Rodgers in musicals such as South Pacific (1949) and The Sound of Music (1959)
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand over hand — grasping with alternate hands
- hand's-breadth — handbreadth
- hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard-core porn — Hard-core porn is pornography that shows sex in a very detailed way, or shows very violent or unpleasant sex.
- hardhandedness — the condition of having hard or thickened skin on the hands due to manual work
- hardheadedness — The characteristic of being hardheaded.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
- harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
- harlequinesque — in the manner of a harlequin.
- harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
- harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
- have it in for — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- 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.
- heart of stone — lack of compassion
- heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
- heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
- heat exchanger — a device for transferring the heat of one substance to another, as from the exhaust gases to the incoming air in a regenerative furnace.
- heat-resistant — able to resist and remain unaffected by heat
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- henry j kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
- hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- here and there — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
- hermann muller — Hermann Joseph, 1890–1967, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1946.
- herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.