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14-letter words containing t, e, n, h

  • eastern thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • einstein shift — a small displacement towards the red in the spectra, caused by the interaction between the radiation and the gravitational field of a massive body, such as the sun
  • elder brethren — the senior members of the governing body of Trinity House
  • election night — the evening when the votes from an election are being counted
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
  • eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
  • embellishments — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
  • emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
  • emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
  • encephalopathy — A disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood).
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endophenotypes — Plural form of endophenotype.
  • english setter — bird dog
  • english sonnet — a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
  • english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
  • enlightenments — Plural form of enlightenment.
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • epenthetically — In an epenthetic manner; by means of epenthesis.
  • ephemeropteran — of or relating to the Ephemeroptera
  • epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
  • epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • erythropoietin — A hormone secreted by the kidneys that increases the rate of production of red blood cells in response to falling levels of oxygen in the tissues.
  • establishments — Plural form of establishment.
  • etching needle — a type of needle used to etch patterns or designs on printing plates
  • ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
  • ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • etiopathogenic — Of or pertaining to etiopathogenesis.
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
  • exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
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