14-letter words containing h
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- 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.
- evenhandedness — The quality or state of being evenhanded.
- everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
- exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
- exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- exhibitionists — Plural form of exhibitionist.
- 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.
- explosion shot — a shot used in hitting a ball from a sand trap, in which the sand just behind the ball rather than the ball itself is struck with full force
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
- extractor hood — a fan used over a cooker to remove fumes
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- 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.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
- fashionmonging — the act of analysing, following or advising others on fashion
- fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.