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14-letter words containing s, h, e, l

  • neighborliness — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
  • 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.
  • news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
  • non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • nonphilosopher — a person who is not a philosopher
  • 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-easterly — A north-easterly point, area, or direction is to the north-east or towards the north-east.
  • north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.
  • northern isles — Orkney and Shetland
  • not merely sth — You use not merely before the less important of two contrasting statements, as a way of emphasizing the more important statement.
  • nursery school — a prekindergarten school for children from about three to five years of age.
  • oehlenschläger — Adam Gottlob (ˈadam ˈɡɔtlɔp). 1779–1850, Danish romantic poet and dramatist
  • oil the wheels — to make things run smoothly
  • old school tie — a necktie striped in the colors of a specific English public school, especially as worn by a graduate to indicate his educational background.
  • oligosynthetic — (linguistics) (of a language) using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.
  • omphaloskepsis — contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
  • ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
  • opisthocoelous — relating to vertebrae in which the centrum is convex and the posterior is concave
  • orthodox sleep — dreamless sleep, characterized by a slow alpha rhythm of brain waves and no marked physiological changes.
  • orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).
  • outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
  • overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paraphernalias — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
  • paschal letter — (in the early Christian church) a letter, written by a patriarch, archbishop, or bishop to a cleric under his authority, announcing the date of the next Easter festival.
  • patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • phenolic resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
  • philippine sea — part of the NW Pacific Ocean, east and north of the Philippines
  • phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
  • phillips screw — a screw having a cruciform slot into which a screwdriver with a cruciform point (Phillips screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
  • philosopheress — a philosopher who is a woman
  • photogeologist — a person who studies or has a profession in photogeology
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
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