14-letter words containing t, o, h, r
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- 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.
- drummond light — calcium light.
- 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
- dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- east-northeast — the point on a compass midway between east and northeast.
- ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
- 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
- electrophorese — (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
- electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
- electrotherapy — The use of electric currents passed through the body to stimulate nerves and muscles, chiefly in the treatment of various forms of paralysis.
- electrothermal — concerned with both electricity and heat, esp the production of electricity by heat
- 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
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- 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
- emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- ephemeral port — (networking) A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
- ephemeropteran — of or relating to the Ephemeroptera
- 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
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- 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.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.