14-letter words containing d, e, t, h, r
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- hydroextractor — a device that dries things by means of the material to be dried being spun around the device's central axis
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hydrothermally — By hydrothermal means.
- hydroxyapatite — a mineral, Ca 10 (PO 4) 6 OH 2 , that is the principal storage form of calcium and phosphorus in bone.
- hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.
- hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
- hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
- hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
- idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
- in other words — that is to say
- in short order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- in this regard — on this point
- inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- light-coloured — having a light colour
- light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
- lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
- little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
- maitre d'hotel — a headwaiter.
- make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- maternal death — the death of a woman while pregnant or shortly after childbirth or an abortion
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- merthyr tydfil — an administrative district in Mid Glamorgan, in S Wales. 43 sq. mi. (113 sq. km).
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- method actress — an actress who bases her role on the inner motivation of the character she plays, following the theories of Stanislavsky
- methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
- mind the store — to tend to business
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- mixed metaphor — the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”.
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- mother goddess — Kālī.
- mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- mum's the word — silent; not saying a word: to keep mum.
- neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.