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14-letter words containing i, h, e, a

  • athletic heart — nonpathological enlargement of the heart resulting from intensive aerobic exercise.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
  • 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).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
  • bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
  • barium-hydrate — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • 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.
  • barrier method — Barrier methods of contraception involve the use of condoms, diaphragms, or other devices that physically prevent the sperm from reaching the egg.
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • batement light — a compartment of a window with tracery, the bottom of which is formed by the arched head of a compartment or compartments below.
  • bathing beauty — an attractive girl in a swimming costume
  • batting helmet — a rigid plastic cap with a sidepiece extending down over the ear, worn for protection while batting
  • be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
  • be in the wash — If you say that something such as an item of clothing is in the wash, you mean that it is being washed, is waiting to be washed, or has just been washed and should therefore not be worn or used.
  • bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
  • bean bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • bean-bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • belisha beacon — a flashing light in an orange globe mounted on a post, indicating a pedestrian crossing on a road
  • bellingshausen — Fabian Gottlieb von [fey-bee-uh n-got-leeb von] /ˈfeɪ bi ənˈgɒt lib vɒn/ (Show IPA), (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshauzen) 1778–1852, Russian naval officer and explorer.
  • beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
  • biceps brachii — See under biceps.
  • bill of health — a certificate, issued by a port officer, that attests to the health of a ship's company
  • binding handle — (networking)   An identifier representing the connection between a client and server. An association between client/server end-points and protocols.
  • bioarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the remains of living things
  • biogeochemical — of or relating to biogeochemistry
  • biomathematics — the study of the application of mathematics to biology
  • bisphosphonate — any drug of a class that inhibits the resorption of bone; used in treating certain bone disorders, esp osteoporosis
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
  • blanket stitch — a strong reinforcing stitch for the edges of blankets and other thick material
  • blanket-stitch — a basic sewing stitch in which widely spaced, interlocking loops, or purls, are formed, used for cutwork, as a decorative finish for edges, etc.
  • 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.
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
  • bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
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