14-letter words containing r, h, o, e
- 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.
- process cheese — a cheese made by heating and blending together several natural cheeses with an emulsifying agent
- progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
- 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.
- promethea moth — a silkworm moth, Callosamia promethea, having reddish-brown wings, each with a border of white or yellow, the larvae of which feed on spicebush and other lauraceous plants.
- prominent moth — any moth of the family Notodontidae characterized by tufts of scales on the back edge of the forewing that stand up prominently at rest and give the group its name. It includes the puss moth and buff-tip as well as those with prominent in the name
- propeller head — Slang. a person who is obsessively devoted to an especially technical pursuit.
- propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
- property right — a legal right to or in a particular property.
- proprietorship — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
- put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
- pyelonephrosis — any disease of the kidney and its pelvis.
- pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
- pyrophotometer — a form of pyrometer that measures temperature by optical or photometric means.
- 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.
- quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
- queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
- radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
- radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
- 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.
- radiotherapist — radiologist
- rags to riches — You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
- raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- rate of growth — the rate at which an economy grows
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
- re-choreograph — to produce new choreography for (a particular work or piece of music)
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- 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.
- red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehoboth beach — a town in SE Delaware: beach resort.