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14-letter words containing a, n, t, r

  • african potato — the corm of a southern African plant, Hypoxis hemerocallidea, believed to possess medicinal properties
  • african violet — any of several tropical African plants of the genus Saintpaulia, esp S. ionantha, cultivated as house plants, with violet, white, or pink flowers and hairy leaves: family Gesneriaceae
  • africanization — to replace the European or white staff of (an organization in Africa) with black Africans.
  • africanthropus — a genus of hominids of eastern Africa, assumed from a number of now lost skull fragments to have been a form of archaic Homo : no longer in technical use.
  • after-ripening — the period of internal change that is necessary in some apparently mature seeds before germination can occur
  • aftersensation — an afterimage.
  • aftertreatment — a method or device for reducing harmful emissions from internal-combustion engines before they are released into the atmosphere, for example a filter or a catalytic converter
  • against nature — If you say that something is against nature, you think that it is unnatural.
  • agglomerations — Plural form of agglomeration.
  • aggrandisement — an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.
  • aggrandization — The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
  • aggrandizement — If someone does something for aggrandizement, they do it in order to get power, wealth, and importance for themselves.
  • agroindustrial — of or relating to agroindustry
  • agrotechnician — a specialist in the science and technology of agriculture, farm production, or the like.
  • agrotechnology — the technology of agriculture, as the methods or machinery needed for efficient production.
  • air conduction — Medicine/Medical. transmission of sound vibrations to the eardrum through the external auditory meatus (opposed to bone conduction).
  • air controller — a military person assigned to monitor, manage, etc. aircraft within a specified region
  • air equivalent — a measure of the effectiveness of a material in absorbing nuclear radiation, expressed as the thickness of an air layer (at 0° C and 1 atmosphere) causing the same absorption.
  • airborne alert — a state of military alert wherein combat-equipped aircraft are flying and prepared for action.
  • airconditioned — Alternative spelling of air-conditioned.
  • airconditioner — Alternative form of air conditioner.
  • aircraftswoman — a woman holding a noncommissioned rank in the RAF.
  • airplane cloth — a strong, plain-weave cloth of linen or cotton, originally used for airplane wings
  • airport lounge — an area in an airport which has seats, and sometimes other services such as toilets and refreshments, and where passengers wait for their plane
  • alan m. turing — Alan Turing
  • alarm reaction — the first stage of the general adaptation syndrome, in which the body responds to stress by exhibiting shock.
  • alaska current — an ocean current flowing counterclockwise in the Gulf of Alaska.
  • album-oriented — of or designating a format featuring rock songs from LPs and CDs rather than singles, especially mainstream rock music.
  • aleutian range — a mountain range extending along the eastern coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Highest peak, Mt. Katmai, 6715 feet (2047 meters).
  • alexander city — a city in E Alabama.
  • alfred t mahan — Alfred Thayer [they-er] /ˈθeɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and writer on naval history.
  • alkaline earth — any of the divalent electropositive metals beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, and radium, belonging to group 2A of the periodic table
  • all or nothing — You can use all or nothing to say that either something must be done fully and completely or else it cannot be done at all.
  • all-or-nothing — not allowing for qualification or compromise; either fully or not at all operative: an all-or-nothing approach.
  • allegorization — to make into an allegory; narrate allegorically.
  • alliance party — a non-sectarian Northern Irish political party founded in 1970
  • allotransplant — allograft.
  • almond extract — oil, essence
  • alpha centauri — a binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Centaurus: magnitude, -0.27: it is the nearest of the stars that are visible to the naked eye, except for the sun
  • alpha-carotene — a common form of carotene found in certain vegetables and fruit
  • alpine bistort — Also called snakeweed. a European plant, Polygonum bistorta, of the buckwheat family, having a twisted root, which is sometimes used as an astringent.
  • alpine currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes alpinum, of Europe, having greenish-yellow flowers and scarlet fruit.
  • alternate host — a host, other than the usual or primary host, on which a parasitic organism can sustain itself.
  • altitudinarian — relating to high ideals
  • amaranthaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Amaranthaceae (or Amarantaceae), a family of tropical and temperate herbaceous or shrubby flowering plants that includes the amaranths and cockscomb
  • amateurishness — The quality of being amateurish.
  • ambisinistrous — clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
  • ambitransitive — (of a verb) Able to be used transitively or intransitively without requiring morphological change.
  • american cloth — a glazed or waterproofed cotton cloth
  • american lotus — water chinquapin (def 1).
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