14-letter words containing a, u, r, e
- anacardiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Anacardiaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees and shrubs many of which have edible drupes. The family includes the cashew, mango, pistachio, and sumach
- anchorage dues — money paid so that a ship can anchor somewhere
- androcephalous — having a human head
- androdioecious — (of a plant species) having hermaphrodite and male flowers on separate plants
- anti-bourgeois — opposed to anyone or anything considered bourgeois
- anti-neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
- antifilibuster — a person or method in opposition to filibustering
- antimoniferous — Containing or producing antimony.
- antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
- antirepublican — opposed to the principles or practice of republicanism
- antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
- antitubercular — acting against tuberculosis
- antiulcerative — An antiulcerative is an agent that prevents the formation or promotes the healing of ulcers.
- antiuniversity — a group or institution which disregards the established traditions or practices of university education
- aperture ratio — relative aperture.
- aphthous fever — foot-and-mouth disease.
- apple turnover — a pastry containing apple
- aquatic centre — a complex with facilities for water sports, including swimming pools
- aqueous humour — the watery fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens
- arabic numeral — one of the symbols 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (opposed to Roman numerals)
- araguaya-river — a river flowing N from central Brazil to the Tocantins River. about 1100 miles (1770 km) long.
- arborsculpture — The art and craft technique of growing and shaping tree trunks.
- archebacterium — (biology) alternative spelling of archaebacterium.
- archipterygium — (anatomy) A primitive fin, like that of Ceratodus.
- arctic current — a cold ocean current flowing S along the Labrador coast through Davis Strait to the Grand Banks where it divides, the E branch joining the North Atlantic Current and the W branch flowing into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
- area pellucida — the translucent central area of the blastoderm of birds and reptiles within which the embryo develops.
- area vasculosa — that part of the area opaca in which the blood cells and vessels are formed.
- argue the toss — to wrangle or dispute at length
- argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
- argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
- armamentariums — Plural form of armamentarium.
- articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- asparagus bean — a trailing, long-stemmed Asian vine, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, of the legume family, having yellow or violet flowers and very long pods.
- asparagus fern — a fernlike species of asparagus, A. plumosus, native to southern Africa
- assault course — An assault course is an area of land covered with obstacles such as walls which people, especially soldiers, use to improve their skills and strength.
- atrial flutter — irregular heart rhythm
- auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
- audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
- audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
- auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
- auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
- aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
- aussie battler — an Australian working-class person
- austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
- authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
- autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
- autocorrelator — (electronics) A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise.
- autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
- autodestructed — Simple past tense and past participle of autodestruct.
- autoenrollment — Automatic enrollment (especially of security certificates in a computer system).