14-letter words that end in h
- keynote speech — opening address at a conference
- khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
- king's english — standard, educated, or correct English speech or usage, especially of England.
- labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
- lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
- life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
- machine finish — a very smooth paper surface, created by a machine.
- machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
- machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
- madhya pradesh — a state in central India. 119,016 sq. mi. (308,252 sq. km). Capital: Bhopal.
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
- magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
- make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- make time with — to succeed in attracting or having an affair with (a person)
- mariana trench — a depression in the ocean floor of the Pacific, S and W of the Mariana Islands: site of greatest known depth of any ocean. 36,201 feet (11,034 meters) deep.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- maternal death — the death of a woman while pregnant or shortly after childbirth or an abortion
- mean free path — the average distance that a particle travels between successive collisions with other particles.
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
- middle english — the English language of the period c1150–c1475. Abbreviation: ME.
- middle flemish — the Flemish language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- military march — a brisk march, especially one suitable for a military parade.
- modern english — the English language since c1475.
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- month by month — each month
- montreal north — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, N of Montreal.
- moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
- mouth-to-mouth — designating a method of artificial respiration involving blowing air rhythmically into the mouth of a person who has stopped breathing, to stimulate return of spontaneous breathing
- muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
- myocardiograph — an instrument for recording the movements of the heart.
- never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
- nicotine patch — plaster to quit smoking
- ninety-seventh — next after the ninety-sixth; being the ordinal number for 97.
- norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
- northern irish — from or characteristic of Northern Ireland
- not merely sth — You use not merely before the less important of two contrasting statements, as a way of emphasizing the more important statement.
- not up to much — If you say that something is not up to much, you mean that it is of poor quality.
- oceanic trench — a long narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust, usually lying above a subduction zone
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.