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

  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharmacopoeian — an individual who has expert knowledge of a pharmacopoeia
  • phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
  • phenobarbitone — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • 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.
  • philanthropize — to treat (persons) in a philanthropic manner.
  • photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
  • pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
  • pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
  • 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.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
  • preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • 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.
  • project athena — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
  • prosencephalon — the forebrain.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • 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.
  • pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • 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.
  • radiant heater — a heater that heats a building by radiant heat emitted from panels containing electrical conductors, hot water, etc
  • radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
  • raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • raunch culture — a culture which promotes overtly sexual representations of women, as through the acceptance of pornography, stripping, nudity in advertising, etc, esp when this is encouraged by women
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • record changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
  • record-changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
  • recording head — the part of a tape recorder that records a sound source by converting the electrical analog of the sound, as from a microphone, into a magnetic signal for storage on magnetic tape.
  • redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
  • rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
  • rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
  • rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
  • rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
  • rhode islander — a person born or living in Rhode Island
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
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