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14-letter words containing h, i

  • arteriographic — relating to arteriography
  • arthrocentesis — The clinical procedure of using a syringe to collect synovial fluid from a joint capsule, used in the diagnosis of gout, arthritis, and synovial infections.
  • arthroconidium — A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
  • arthrogryposis — (countable, pathology) The permanent fixation of a joint in a contracted position.
  • arthroplasties — Plural form of arthroplasty.
  • ascii graphics — ASCII art
  • assistantships — Plural form of assistantship.
  • asthenospermia — (medicine) Loss or reduction in the strength or energy of sperm cells, hence infertility. Not always infertile many are subfertile.
  • asthenospermic — (medicine) Characterised by or pertaining to asthenospermia, hence infertile.
  • asthenospheric — relating to the asthenosphere
  • astrochemistry — the study of the chemistry of celestial bodies and space, esp by means of spectroscopy
  • astrolithology — The science of aerolites.
  • astrophysicist — An astrophysicist is someone who studies astrophysics.
  • aswan high dam — a dam on the Nile forming a reservoir (Lake Nasser) extending 480 km (300 miles) from the First to the Third Cataracts: opened in 1971, it was built 6 km (4 miles) upstream from the old Aswan Dam (built in 1902 and twice raised). Height of dam: 109 m (365 ft)
  • asynchronicity — (uncountable) The state of being asynchronous.
  • asynchronistic — Not synchronistic.
  • at first blush — when first seen; as a first impression
  • at first sight — If you say that something seems to have certain characteristics at first sight, you mean that it appears to have the features you describe when you first see it but later it is found to be different.
  • at the outside — You use at the outside to say that you think that a particular amount is the largest possible in a particular situation, or that a particular time is the latest possible time for something to happen.
  • athletic coach — a person qualified to train athletes
  • athletic heart — nonpathological enlargement of the heart resulting from intensive aerobic exercise.
  • atomic physics — the branch of physics concerned with the structure and behaviour of atomic nuclei
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • authenticating — to establish as genuine.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • authorisations — Plural form of authorisation.
  • authoritarians — Plural form of authoritarian.
  • 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.
  • authorizations — Plural form of authorization.
  • autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
  • autobiographic — marked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history; of or in the manner of an autobiography: autobiographical material; an autobiographical novel.
  • autoradiograph — a photograph showing the distribution of a radioactive substance in a specimen. The photographic plate is exposed by radiation from the specimen
  • avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
  • 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.
  • babies'-breath — baby's breath
  • backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
  • backscratching — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
  • backside cache — (hardware, processor)   An implementation of secondary cache memory that allows it to be directly accessed by the CPU. Backside cache is used by Apple Computers, Inc. in their PowerPC G3 processor. Previous PowerPC processors used the system bus to access both secondary cache and main memory. In the PowerPC G3 a dedicated bus handles only CPU/cache transactions. This bus can operate faster than the system bus thus improving the overall performance of the processor. The term apparently derives from the relocation of the secondary cache from the motherboard to the processor card itself, i.e. on the backside of the processor card.
  • bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
  • balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
  • ball and chain — (formerly) a heavy iron ball attached to a chain and fastened to a prisoner
  • ball lightning — a luminous electrically charged ball occasionally seen during electrical storms
  • ball-and-chain — a heavy iron ball fastened by a chain to a prisoner's leg.
  • 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.
  • bang to rights — caught red-handed
  • bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
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