14-letter words containing a, t, r, h, s, i
- backscratching — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
- bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
- bang to rights — caught red-handed
- 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.
- basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
- bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
- be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
- bipartisanship — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
- 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.
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- brass farthing — something of little or no value
- brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
- 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 guiana — Guyana
- british malaya — a comprehensive term for the former British possessions on the Malay Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago: now part of Malaysia.
- bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
- bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
- cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- catachrestical — Catachrestic.
- catastrophical — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
- catcher's mitt — the glove worn by the catcher to protect the hands
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- characterising — Present participle of characterise.
- characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- chase pointers — (programming) To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
- chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
- chicken breast — pigeon breast
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- chisholm trail — cattle trail from San Antonio, Tex., to Abilene, Kans.: important from 1865 until the 1880s
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- chondromatosis — a painful and immobilizing condition that affects the joints, in particular the elbow, hip, and knee joints, and results in the synovial tissue becoming cartilaginous
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
- christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
- christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
- christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
- christmas card — Christmas cards are cards with greetings, which people send to their friends and family at Christmas.
- christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.