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14-letter words containing s, h, a, l, o, n

  • john constableJohn, 1776–1837, English painter.
  • kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
  • machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
  • metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
  • naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy
  • neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • non-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • non-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
  • non-scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
  • nonchromosomal — any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
  • norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
  • north st. paul — a town in E Minnesota.
  • north-easterly — A north-easterly point, area, or direction is to the north-east or towards the north-east.
  • oehlenschläger — Adam Gottlob (ˈadam ˈɡɔtlɔp). 1779–1850, Danish romantic poet and dramatist
  • on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
  • outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • parish council — local administrative body
  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • philanthropist — a person who practices philanthropy.
  • prosencephalon — the forebrain.
  • psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
  • psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
  • psilanthropist — a person who believes that Jesus was merely human
  • psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
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