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

  • psycho-history — history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis to explore motivations, explain actions, etc.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
  • pyrophotograph — a photograph produced by a burning process, such as on glass or porcelain
  • 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.
  • radioautograph — autoradiograph.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rest of esther — a book of the Old Testament Apocrypha consisting of verses in the Septuagint text of the book of Esther that are not in the Hebrew text
  • 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.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • ride at anchor — to be anchored
  • ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • right-to-lifer — someone who supports the right to life of the unborn and opposes abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
  • rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
  • rocking rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which consists of one accented syllable between two unaccented ones.
  • roentgenograph — roentgenogram.
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • roman catholic — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
  • röntgenography — radiography
  • rorschach test — a test for revealing the underlying personality structure of an individual by the use of a standard series of 10 inkblot designs to which the subject responds by telling what image or emotion each design evokes.
  • rotary shutter — a camera shutter consisting of a rotating disk pierced with a slit that passes in front of the lens to expose the film or plate.
  • rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
  • roulette wheel — spinning part of roulette table
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