14-letter words containing a, l, h, i
- barrel shifter — (hardware) A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.
- batement light — a compartment of a window with tracery, the bottom of which is formed by the arched head of a compartment or compartments below.
- bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
- batting helmet — a rigid plastic cap with a sidepiece extending down over the ear, worn for protection while batting
- bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
- belisha beacon — a flashing light in an orange globe mounted on a post, indicating a pedestrian crossing on a road
- bellingshausen — Fabian Gottlieb von [fey-bee-uh n-got-leeb von] /ˈfeɪ bi ənˈgɒt lib vɒn/ (Show IPA), (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshauzen) 1778–1852, Russian naval officer and explorer.
- bill of health — a certificate, issued by a port officer, that attests to the health of a ship's company
- binding handle — (networking) An identifier representing the connection between a client and server. An association between client/server end-points and protocols.
- bioarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the remains of living things
- biogeochemical — of or relating to biogeochemistry
- black as night — totally dark
- blacktip shark — a widely distributed sand shark, Charcharinus limbatus, having fins that appear to have been dipped in ink, inhabiting shallow waters of warm seas.
- blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
- blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
- blanket stitch — a strong reinforcing stitch for the edges of blankets and other thick material
- blanket-stitch — a basic sewing stitch in which widely spaced, interlocking loops, or purls, are formed, used for cutwork, as a decorative finish for edges, etc.
- bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
- bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
- bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- brachycephalic — having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
- brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
- brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
- brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
- braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
- branchial arch — Zoology. one of a series of bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians; gill bar.
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
- british dollar — any of several coins formerly issued by the British Empire for use in certain territories, as the Straits dollar or the Hong Kong dollar.
- british malaya — a comprehensive term for the former British possessions on the Malay Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago: now part of Malaysia.
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
- brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
- browntail moth — kind of moth
- c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
- cache conflict — (storage) A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
- calligraphical — calligraphic
- canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
- canonical hour — one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law
- cap the climax — to be or do more than could be expected or believed
- cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
- casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
- catachrestical — Catachrestic.
- catastrophical — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- cellini's halo — Heiligenschein.
- centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
- cephalic index — the ratio of the greatest width of the human head to its greatest length, multiplied by 100