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14-letter words containing s, e, r, o, a

  • assert oneself — to insist on one's rights, or on being recognized
  • 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
  • astigmatometer — an apparatus for measuring the degree of astigmatism.
  • astrochemistry — the study of the chemistry of celestial bodies and space, esp by means of spectroscopy
  • astrocompasses — Plural form of astrocompass.
  • astrogeologist — a person who studies astrogeology
  • 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 close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
  • at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
  • at one's mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
  • at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
  • at one's worst — When someone is at their worst, they are as unpleasant, bad, or unsuccessful as it is possible for them to be.
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • autodestructed — Simple past tense and past participle of autodestruct.
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
  • autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
  • avalokitesvara — a male Bodhisattva, widely revered and identified with various persons and gods.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • bachelor chest — a chest of drawers, esp., one for men's shirts, sweaters, underwear, etc.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
  • bacteriostasis — inhibition of the growth and reproduction of bacteria, esp by the action of a chemical agent
  • bacteriostatic — the prevention of the further growth of bacteria.
  • balsam of peru — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • banker's order — pay order, banker's cheque
  • barbados earth — a diatomaceous marl found in Barbados
  • barbados pride — Also called bead tree. a tropical African and Asian tree, Adenanthera pavonina, of the legume family, having feathery foliage and bearing red seeds that are used in beadwork.
  • barber-surgeon — (formerly) a barber practicing surgery and dentistry.
  • bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
  • barnacle goose — a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
  • baroja y nessi — Pío [pee-oh;; Spanish pee-aw] /ˈpi oʊ;; Spanish ˈpi ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1872–1956, Spanish novelist.
  • basque country — Theregion comprising three provinces in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay, inhabited by Basques: 2,803 sq mi (7,260 sq km); pop. 2,104,000
  • 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
  • bazillionaires — Plural form of bazillionaire.
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • beggar's opera — a ballad opera (1728) with text by John Gay and music arranged by John Pepusch.
  • belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
  • belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • berberidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Berberidaceae, a mainly N temperate family of flowering plants (mostly shrubs), including barberry and barrenwort
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • beyond measure — If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
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