14-letter words containing r, m, e, t, h, o
- haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- hammer thrower — a contestant in a hammer throw
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- health problem — ailment or disorder
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- helicopter mom — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
- heteroaromatic — a heterocyclic aromatic compound.
- heterochromous — of different colors.
- heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
- heteromorphism — The quality or condition of existing in various forms.
- heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
- heterosomatous — (of fish) having an abnormal or asymmetrical body type
- hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
- histochemistry — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- holter monitor — a portable electrocardiograph worn by a patient over an extended period of time to assess the effects on heart function of activities of daily living.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- housing market — property trade
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hydrothermally — By hydrothermal means.
- hyperchromatic — Hyperchromic.
- hyperemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hypergeometric — of or relating to operations or series that transcend ordinary geometrical operations or series
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
- hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- hysterectomies — Plural form of hysterectomy.
- hysterectomise — Alt form hysterectomize.
- hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
- iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- in the morning — every morning
- john c fremont — John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- larmor theorem — the theorem that an electron subjected only to the force exerted by the nucleus about which it is moving will undergo Larmor precession but no other change in motion when placed in a magnetic field.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lower the boom — Nautical. any of various more or less horizontal spars or poles for extending the feet of sails, especially fore-and-aft sails, for handling cargo, suspending mooring lines alongside a vessel, pushing a vessel away from wharves, etc.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.