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16-letter words containing e, n, h, a

  • anti-theoretical — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • anticholinergics — Plural form of anticholinergic.
  • antihypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
  • antihypertensive — able to inhibit or control hypertension
  • antipathetically — In an antipathetic fashion.
  • apparent horizon — the apparent line that divides the earth and the sky
  • apple-touch-icon — (programming)   (apple-touch-icon.png) Apple's default icon (image) used to represent a website, e.g. when saved as a bookmark or on the home screen of an iOS device such as an iPhone or iPad. Apple's scheme allows a site to offer images of different sizes so the client can choose the most appropriate one according to its screen size and resolution. Apple devices and applications completely ignore the favicon.ico de facto standard which, while somewhat quirky in its use of the ico format, has been pretty much universally adopted elsewhere. Conversely, apple-touch-icon.png will be ignored by non-Apple devices, possibly because its 16x16 resolution would look pretty shabby on most smart phones.
  • apprehensiveness — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • approachableness — capable of being approached; accessible.
  • archaeoastronomy — the scientific study of the beliefs and practices concerning astronomy that existed in ancient and prehistoric civilizations
  • archaeomagnetism — an archaeological technique for dating certain clay objects by measuring the extent to which they have been magnetized by the earth's magnetic field
  • archconservative — consistently holding extremely conservative views: publisher of the city's archconservative newspaper.
  • arms and the man — a comedy (1898) by G. B. Shaw.
  • around the clock — continuing without pause or interruption: an around-the-clock guard on the prisoner.
  • around the world — in many countries
  • around-the-clock — all day and all night
  • arthus' reaction — a severe, local immune reaction to the injection of an antigen in a sensitized host.
  • ascending rhythm — rising rhythm.
  • ashmolean museum — a museum, attached to Oxford University and founded in 1683, noted for its paintings and archaeological collections
  • asiatic elephant — Indian elephant. See under elephant.
  • at the sharp end — If you say that someone is at the sharp end of a particular activity or type of work, you mean that they are involved in the most difficult or dangerous aspects of it.
  • athanasian creed — a profession of faith widely used in the Western Church which, although formerly attributed to Athanasius, probably originated in Gaul between 381 and 428 ad
  • atlantic charter — the joint declaration issued by F. D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on Aug 14, 1941, consisting of eight principles to guide a postwar settlement
  • attendance sheet — an official document for listing those attending a meeting, class, course, etc
  • atwood's machine — a device consisting of two unequal masses connected by a string passed over a pulley, used to illustrate the laws of motion.
  • auction pinochle — a variety of pinochle for three to five players in which, for every hand, there are three active players, each dealt 15 cards, with the highest bidder winning the contract and playing against the other two active opponents.
  • audience chamber — a room where a monarch or head of state conducts formal interviews
  • authentification — The process of making, or establishing as, authentic.
  • autoethnographic — Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
  • aversion therapy — a method of suppressing an undesirable habit, such as excessive smoking, by causing the subject to associate an unpleasant effect, such as an electric shock or nausea, with the habit
  • avian diphtheria — a virus disease of chickens and other birds characterized by warty excrescences on the comb and wattles, and often by diphtherialike changes in the mucous membranes of the head.
  • background check — an investigation into a person's origins and previous history
  • baggage handling — the work of dealing with and sorting passengers' baggage at an airport
  • bahasa indonesia — the official language of Indonesia: developed from the form of Malay formerly widely used as a trade language in SE Asia
  • ball-peen hammer — a hammer with one end of the head rounded and the other end flat
  • balloon catheter — a type of catheter with a tiny, inflatable balloon at the tip, used in various surgical procedures
  • basal anesthesia — anesthesia induced as a preliminary to further and deeper anesthesia
  • batch processing — manufacturing products or treating materials in batches, by passing the output of one process to subsequent processes
  • bathroom cabinet — a wall-mounted cabinet in a bathroom, typically with a mirror front and used for the storage of medicines and toiletries
  • be on the market — to be offered for sale
  • be the making of — to cause the success of
  • bearish tendency — a tendency for share prices to fall
  • behavior pattern — a recurrent way of acting by an individual or group toward a given object or in a given situation.
  • behavioural sink — a small area in which people or animals live in overcrowded conditions
  • belgian sheepdog — any of a Belgian breed of large herding dog with a black coat, sometimes used as a guide dog
  • bethmann hollweg — Theobald von (ˈteːobalt fɔn). 1856–1921, chancellor of Germany (1909–17)
  • bethmann-hollweg — Theobald von [tey-oh-bahlt fuh n] /ˈteɪ oʊˌbɑlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1856–1921, German statesman: chancellor 1909–17.
  • bill of exchange — (now chiefly in foreign transactions) a document, usually negotiable, containing an instruction to a third party to pay a stated sum of money at a designated future date or on demand
  • binomial theorem — a mathematical theorem that gives the expansion of any binomial raised to a positive integral power, n. It contains n + 1 terms: (x + a)n = xn + nxn–1a + [n(n–1)/2] xn–2a2 +…+ (nk) xn–kak + … + an, where (nk) = n!/(n–k)!k!, the number of combinations of k items selected from n
  • biotechnological — Biotechnological means relating to biotechnology.
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