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14-letter words containing h, e, a, l, r

  • athletic heart — nonpathological enlargement of the heart resulting from intensive aerobic exercise.
  • aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
  • 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.
  • azimuth circle — a device for measuring azimuths, consisting of a graduated ring equipped with a sighting vane on each side, which fits concentrically over a compass.
  • bachelor chest — a chest of drawers, esp., one for men's shirts, sweaters, underwear, etc.
  • bachelor party — A bachelor party is a party for a man who is getting married very soon, to which only men are invited.
  • bahr el ghazal — a river in SW Sudan, flowing E to contribute to headwaters of the White Nile. About 500 miles (805 km) long.
  • baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
  • banach algebra — (mathematics)   An algebra in which the vector space is a Banach space.
  • 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.
  • barrel-chested — A barrel-chested man has a large, rounded chest.
  • beach umbrella — a large umbrella used as a sunshade on the beach
  • bearer channel — (communications)   Originally, a channel suited for carrying one voice-grade connection. Typically a DS0 channel. Compare data channel. (1997-03-7)
  • bioarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the remains of living things
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
  • bletheranskate — a blatherer
  • bokhara clover — white melilot.
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • brachycephalic — having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • bubble chamber — a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles
  • bulgur (wheat) — wheat that has been cooked, dried, and coarsely ground: used to make tabbouleh or, sometimes, pilaf or couscous
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
  • camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
  • carry the ball — to assume responsibility; take command
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • catachrestical — Catachrestic.
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • cavalry charge — a charge by mounted troops
  • cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
  • centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • chalcotrichite — a fibrous variety of cuprite.
  • chancel screen — a screen separating the chancel from the main body of a church
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