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14-letter words containing o, t, h, i, n

  • archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
  • architectonics — the science of architecture
  • art exhibition — an exhibition of works of art such as pictures
  • 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.
  • 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
  • asynchronicity — (uncountable) The state of being asynchronous.
  • asynchronistic — Not synchronistic.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • authorisations — Plural form of authorisation.
  • authoritarians — Plural form of authoritarian.
  • authorizations — Plural form of authorization.
  • azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
  • bang to rights — caught red-handed
  • 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.
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • below the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • below-the-line — denoting the entries printed below the horizontal line on a company's profit-and-loss account that show how any profit is to be distributed
  • beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
  • bight of bonny — a wide bay at the E end of the Gulf of Guinea off the coasts of Nigeria and Cameroon
  • birthing stool — a stool constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
  • bisphosphonate — any drug of a class that inhibits the resorption of bone; used in treating certain bone disorders, esp osteoporosis
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
  • bottom fishing — investing in low-priced shares that show prospects of recovery or in shares that are low-priced because of a general market decline in the hope of making a profit
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
  • bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
  • 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.
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • cache conflict — (storage)   A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
  • centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
  • chain reaction — A chain reaction is a series of chemical changes, each of which causes the next.
  • channelization — the action or process of channelizing
  • chaptalization — a method of increasing the alcohol in a wine by adding sugar to the must before or during fermentation.
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • chemical toner — toner (def 4).
  • chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
  • chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chemosynthesis — the formation of organic material by certain bacteria using energy derived from simple chemical reactions
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