14-letter words containing t, h, e, i, l, r
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
- little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
- little theater — generally noncommercial drama, usually of an experimental nature and directed at a limited audience.
- little theatre — small venue for amateur dramatics
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
- maitre d'hotel — a headwaiter.
- major mitchell — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, with a white-and-pink plumage
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- merthyr tydfil — an administrative district in Mid Glamorgan, in S Wales. 43 sq. mi. (113 sq. km).
- metaphorically — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metatheatrical — Of or pertaining to metatheatre.
- methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
- milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
- miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- mortise chisel — framing chisel.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
- multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.
- noninheritable — Not inheritable.
- nontheoretical — not confined to the theoretical realm; actual
- northern isles — Orkney and Shetland
- omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
- orthonormalize — (mathematics) To make a set of vectors both orthogonal and normalized.
- orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).
- overhead light — a light which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
- owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
- paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
- pamphleteering — the occupation of a pamphleteer
- pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
- 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.
- pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- philanthropize — to treat (persons) in a philanthropic manner.
- philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
- 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.
- pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.