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14-letter words containing a, r, s, e, n, o

  • apportionments — Plural form of apportionment.
  • architectonics — the science of architecture
  • arctic monkeys — British rock group (formed 2002): comprising Alex Turner (born 1986; vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (born 1985, guitar), Matt Helders (born 1986, drums, vocals) and Nick O'Malley (born 1985, bass guitar); their albums include Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), and AM (2013)
  • argonne forest — a wooded region in NE France: battles, World War I, 1918; World War II, 1944.
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • arkansas stone — a type of stone used as a whetstone for metal objects, especially knives.
  • arms inspector — a person who carries out an arms inspection
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • arthrocentesis — The clinical procedure of using a syringe to collect synovial fluid from a joint capsule, used in the diagnosis of gout, arthritis, and synovial infections.
  • assemblyperson — a member of a legislative assembly, especially a member of the lower house of the legislature in certain states of the U.S.
  • assert oneself — to insist on one's rights, or on being recognized
  • asthenospermia — (medicine) Loss or reduction in the strength or energy of sperm cells, hence infertility. Not always infertile many are subfertile.
  • asthenospermic — (medicine) Characterised by or pertaining to asthenospermia, hence infertile.
  • asthenospheric — relating to the asthenosphere
  • at close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
  • at one's mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
  • at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
  • at one's worst — When someone is at their worst, they are as unpleasant, bad, or unsuccessful as it is possible for them to be.
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • banker's order — pay order, banker's cheque
  • barber-surgeon — (formerly) a barber practicing surgery and dentistry.
  • bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
  • barnacle goose — a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
  • baroja y nessi — Pío [pee-oh;; Spanish pee-aw] /ˈpi oʊ;; Spanish ˈpi ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1872–1956, Spanish novelist.
  • basque country — Theregion comprising three provinces in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay, inhabited by Basques: 2,803 sq mi (7,260 sq km); pop. 2,104,000
  • bazillionaires — Plural form of bazillionaire.
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • beyond measure — If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • bioaeronautics — the use of aircraft in the discovery, development, and protection of natural and biological resources
  • bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • born yesterday — brought forth by birth.
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
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