15-letter words containing a, s, h
- anne hutchinson — Anne Marbury [mahr-buh-ree] /ˈmɑr bə ri/ (Show IPA), 1591–1643, American religious liberal, born in England: banished from Massachusetts 1637.
- annihilationism — the teaching or principle that trespassers and evildoers are completely destroyed rather than made to suffer in hell after death
- annihilationist — A person who believes that eternal punishment is the annihilation of both the body and the soul.
- answer the door — When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
- anthony burgess — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- anthony hawkins — Sir Anthony Hope ("Anthony Hope") 1863–1933, English novelist and playwright.
- anthropogenesis — the study of the origins of man
- anthropologists — Plural form of anthropologist.
- anthropometrics — the science of measuring the size and proportions of the human body (called anthropometry), especially as applied to the design of furniture and machines.
- anthropopathism — ascription of human passions or feelings to a being or beings not human, especially to a deity.
- anthropophagous — Who practices anthropophagy.
- anthropopsychic — the attribution of consciousness to divine beings and nature
- anthroposophist — A proponent of anthroposophy.
- anti-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- anti-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- anti-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- anti-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- antiaphrodisiac — something that represses sexual desire
- antiarrhythmics — Plural form of antiarrhythmic.
- anticholesterol — an agent which acts against cholesterol, either as an antibody produced naturally by many mammals or in the form of a drug
- antichristianly — in an Antichristian manner
- antifashionable — not conforming to mainstream fashion
- antihypotensive — An antihypotensive is any drug that raises low blood pressure.
- antishoplifting — designed to prevent shoplifting
- apartment house — a building containing a number of residential apartments.
- apophthegmatise — to speak in apophthegms
- apophthegmatist — a person who creates apophthegms
- apostle pitcher — a stoneware pitcher decorated in relief with figures of the apostles.
- apostrophically — (rhetoric) Using apostrophe; with sudden exclamatory dialogue.
- apple macintosh — Macintosh
- apprenticeships — Plural form of apprenticeship.
- approach lights — lights on the runway that guide planes coming in to land
- approved school — In Britain in the past, an approved school was a boarding school where young people could be sent to stay if they had been found guilty of a crime.
- archaeastronomy — (astronomy, archaeology) The historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.
- archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
- archeoastronomy — the branch of archaeology that deals with the apparent use by prehistoric civilizations of astronomical techniques to establish the seasons or the cycle of the year, especially as evidenced in the construction of megaliths and other ritual structures.
- archiepiscopacy — a form of church government in which power is vested in archbishops.
- archiepiscopate — the rank, office, or term of office of an archbishop
- arthur brisbane — Arthur, 1864–1936, U.S. journalist.
- asiago (cheese) — a hard, dry, sharply flavored cheese originally of N Italy
- asian shorthair — a generic term for a group of breeds of short-haired cat of Burmese type, including the Bombay
- asiatic cholera — cholera (def 1).
- astrophotograph — a photograph of the heavenly bodies
- astrophotometry — the measurement of the intensity of light of celestial objects.
- astrophysically — from an astrophysical point of view
- astrophysicists — Plural form of astrophysicist.
- as…as they come — the most characteristic example of a class or type
- at arm's length — If you hold something at arm's length, you hold it away from your body with your arm straight.
- at death's door — If you say that someone is at death's door, you mean they are very ill indeed and likely to die.
- at full stretch — If you are at full stretch, your arm is straight and extended as far as possible, usually because you are trying to reach something that is almost too far away.