14-letter words containing t, h, e, i, r
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
- dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
- dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- 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
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- english setter — bird dog
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- erythrocytosis — Polycythemia.
- erythropoiesis — The production of red blood cells.
- erythropoietic — Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
- 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.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
- 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
- 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.
- exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
- 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.