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14-letter words containing s, h, o, t, i, e

  • 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.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
  • it's no bother — If you say 'it's no bother' after offering to do something for someone, you are emphasizing that you really want to do it and that it will take very little effort.
  • john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • 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
  • kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • mephistopheles — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • merionethshire — a historic county in Gwynedd, in N Wales.
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • metachromatism — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
  • metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • metamorphosise — (UK, nonstandard) To metamorphose.
  • metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
  • metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
  • metempsychosis — the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • methodologists — Plural form of methodologist.
  • microchemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with minute quantities of substances.
  • mind the store — to tend to business
  • 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
  • miss the point — fail to understand
  • monophthongise — Alternative spelling of monophthongize.
  • mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
  • morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
  • mortise chisel — framing chisel.
  • 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
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • narcosynthesis — a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics.
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • nether regions — the lower part of a place, esp when unpleasant or frightening
  • neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
  • newsworthiness — The characteristic of being newsworthy.
  • nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
  • non-exhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • nonmechanistic — Not mechanistic.
  • norethisterone — 19-nor-17\u03b1-ethynyltestosterone, a progestogen used in some combined oral contraceptives.
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