14-letter words containing a, t, r, o
- isodiametrical — isodiametric
- isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- italian clover — crimson clover.
- jack crosstree — jack1 (def 9b).
- jarabe tapatio — a dance of Mexican origin, performed by a couple and consisting of nine figures and melodies, in which the partners often dance facing each other but not touching.
- java black rot — a disease of stored sweet potatoes, characterized by dry rot of and black protuberances on the tubers, caused by a fungus, Diplodia tubericola.
- jerkwater town — a small unimportant town
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
- joint passport — a single passport shared by two or more people, such as a passport shared by a parent and child
- journal intime — a personal or private diary.
- journalization — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
- judas iscariot — Also called Judas Iscariot. the disciple who betrayed Jesus. Mark 3:19.
- junior partner — a partner in a law firm or financial organisation who has less responsibility than a senior partner
- junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
- kamloops trout — a variety of rainbow trout found in Canadian lakes
- kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
- karstification — the process of turning into karst
- karyotypically — (cytology) With regard to the karyotype.
- kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
- keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
- kilogram-meter — a meter-kilogram-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one kilogram when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force; approximately 7.2 foot-pounds. Abbreviation: kg-m.
- kleptoparasite — A bird, insect, or other animal that habitually robs animals of other species of food.
- knotty rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
- labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
- lamellirostral — having a beak equipped with thin plates or lamellae for straining water and mud from food, as the ducks, geese, swans, and flamingos.
- lantern pinion — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
- lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
- larmor theorem — the theorem that an electron subjected only to the force exerted by the nucleus about which it is moving will undergo Larmor precession but no other change in motion when placed in a magnetic field.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
- lateralisation — Alternative spelling of lateralization.
- lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
- laterotemporal — (anatomy) Relating to the lateral part of the temporal region of the skull.
- lavatory paper — Lavatory paper is paper that you use to clean yourself after you have got rid of urine or faeces from your body.
- lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.