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14-letter words containing r, h, o, e

  • archaeological — of or relating to archaeology.
  • archaeologists — Plural form of archaeologist.
  • archaeometrist — a person who uses archaeometry
  • archaeozoology — the analysis and interpretation of animal remains found at archaeological sites
  • archencephalon — the primitive forebrain region of the embryo, anterior to the notochord, that gives rise to the midbrain and forebrain.
  • archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
  • archiepiscopal — of or associated with an archbishop
  • architectonics — the science of architecture
  • argue the toss — to wrangle or dispute at length
  • aromatherapist — An aromatherapist is a person who is qualified to practise aromatherapy.
  • art exhibition — an exhibition of works of art such as pictures
  • arteriographic — relating to arteriography
  • 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.
  • arthroplasties — Plural form of arthroplasty.
  • 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
  • astrochemistry — the study of the chemistry of celestial bodies and space, esp by means of spectroscopy
  • 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.
  • aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • beach wormwood — a composite plant, Artemisia stellerana, having yellow flowers and deeply lobed leaves covered with dense white fuzz.
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
  • big brotherism — paternalistic authoritarianism that seeks to supply the needs and regulate the conduct of people.
  • bioarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the remains of living things
  • bishop's mitre — a European heteropterous bug, Aelia acuminata, whose larvae are a pest of cereal grasses: family Pentatomidae
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • bokhara clover — white melilot.
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • bored to death — very weary and lack stimulation
  • boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
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