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14-letter words containing h, o

  • astrolithology — The science of aerolites.
  • astrophysicist — An astrophysicist is someone who studies astrophysics.
  • asynchronicity — (uncountable) The state of being asynchronous.
  • asynchronistic — Not synchronistic.
  • asynchronously — In an asynchronous manner.
  • at (the) worst — You use at worst or at the worst to indicate that you are mentioning the worst thing that might happen in a situation.
  • at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
  • at one's heels — just behind or following closely
  • at second hand — If you experience something at second hand, you are told about it by other people rather than experiencing it yourself.
  • at the cost of — at the expense of losing
  • at the hand of — through the action of
  • 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.
  • athlete's foot — Athlete's foot is a fungal infection in which the skin between the toes becomes cracked or peels off.
  • athletic coach — a person qualified to train athletes
  • atomic physics — the branch of physics concerned with the structure and behaviour of atomic nuclei
  • aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • author catalog — a catalog whose entries are listed by author, editor, compiler, translator, or other party considered to have responsibility for the creation or assembly of the work specified.
  • 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.
  • autocoprophagy — the consumption of one's own faeces
  • autoradiograph — a photograph showing the distribution of a radioactive substance in a specimen. The photographic plate is exposed by radiation from the specimen
  • autotypography — a process in which drawings are executed on gelatin before being impressed on a soft metal plate to allow for printing
  • azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
  • 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.
  • back and forth — If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
  • back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
  • bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
  • 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.
  • ban-the-bomber — a person who vigorously advocates banning the development or use of nuclear weapons.
  • bang to rights — caught red-handed
  • barbados earth — a diatomaceous marl found in Barbados
  • bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
  • barometrograph — barograph.
  • barrier method — Barrier methods of contraception involve the use of condoms, diaphragms, or other devices that physically prevent the sperm from reaching the egg.
  • basotho-qwaqwa — (formerly) a Bantustan in South Africa, in the Orange Free State; the only Bantustan without exclaves: abolished in 1993
  • bass saxophone — a large saxophone of low range, usually supported on a stand while being played.
  • batrachophobia — fear of amphibians
  • batrachophobic — relating to the fear of toads and frogs
  • bayes' theorem — the fundamental result which expresses the conditional probability P(E/A) of an event E given an event A as P(A/E).P(E)/P(A); more generally, where En is one of a set of values Ei which partition the sample space, P(En/A) = P(A/En)P(En)/Σ P(A/Ei)P(Ei). This enables prior estimates of probability to be continually revised in the light of observations
  • bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
  • be in the loop — If someone is in the loop, they are part of a group of people who make decisions about important things, or they know about these decisions. If they are out of the loop, they do not make or know about important decisions.
  • be on the ball — to be alert; be efficient
  • beach wormwood — a composite plant, Artemisia stellerana, having yellow flowers and deeply lobed leaves covered with dense white fuzz.
  • beclomethasone — a potent synthetic corticosteroid, C 28 H 37 ClO 7 , prepared as an inhalant in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
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