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14-letter words containing t, h, e, i, l, r

  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
  • choral society — an organization of amateur singers
  • christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
  • chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
  • chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
  • controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • dehydroretinol — (organic compound) A derivative of retinol having an extra double bond; vitamin A2.
  • demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • diethylpropion — a sympathomimetic substance, C 13 H 19 NO⋅HCl, used as an appetite suppressor and a short-term adjunct in the management of certain kinds of obesity.
  • dimethyl ether — Dimethyl ether is a compound used as a propellant in aerosol canisters.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
  • eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
  • electric chair — execution apparatus
  • electric light — a light powered by electricity
  • electric shock — electric current entering the body
  • electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • english setter — bird dog
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethyl chloride — a colorless liquid, C2H5Cl, prepared by heating ethyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride in the presence of zinc chloride: used in preparing tetraethyl lead and ethyl cellulose, and as a local anesthetic
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
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