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14-letter words containing u, n, h, o, l

  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • holy communion — communion (def 1).
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • honour killing — a murder committed by a male on a female relative considered to have brought dishonour to the family, usually through sexual activity forbidden by religion or tradition
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
  • humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
  • involute teeth — (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.
  • jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
  • john q. public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
  • land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • naphthyl group — Also called alpha-naphthyl group, alpha-naphthyl radical. the univalent group C 1 0 H 7 –, having a replaceable hydrogen atom in the first, or alpha, position; 1-naphthyl group.
  • neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • neurohypnology — a name given to hypnosis by the Scottish physician Braid
  • neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • non-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
  • nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
  • nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
  • north st. paul — a town in E Minnesota.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • nursery school — a prekindergarten school for children from about three to five years of age.
  • on the lookout — keeping watch
  • outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
  • parish council — local administrative body
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