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

  • much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
  • 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.
  • murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • nebuchadnezzar — Also, Nebuchadrezzar [neb-uh-kuh d-rez-er, neb-yoo-] /ˌnɛb ə kədˈrɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-/ (Show IPA). a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
  • neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
  • nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
  • null character — Computers. a control character representing nothing, with the value of binary zero, but having special meaning when interpreted as text, as in marking the end of character strings.
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
  • or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
  • orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
  • orthomolecular — being or pertaining to the treatment of disease by increasing, decreasing, or otherwise controlling the intake of natural substances, especially vitamins. Compare megavitamin (def 1).
  • out of the ark — very old; out of date
  • overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
  • paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
  • pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
  • plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
  • pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • pre-earthquake — a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating.
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
  • purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
  • quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
  • radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
  • raspberry bush — a bush on which raspberries grow
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
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