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14-letter words containing s, h, e, a

  • aphthous fever — foot-and-mouth disease.
  • apocryphalness — the quality of being apocryphal
  • apple polisher — a sycophant; toady
  • apple-polisher — to curry favor with someone, especially in an obsequious or flattering manner.
  • apprehensively — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • apprenticeship — Someone who has an apprenticeship works for a fixed period of time for a person who has a particular skill in order to learn the skill. Apprenticeship is the system of learning a skill like this.
  • approach stage — the stage of landing when a plane is approaching the runway
  • aqueous humour — the watery fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens
  • archaeologists — Plural form of archaeologist.
  • archaeometrist — a person who uses archaeometry
  • archiepiscopal — of or associated with an archbishop
  • archimandrites — Plural form of archimandrite.
  • architectonics — the science of architecture
  • argue the toss — to wrangle or dispute at length
  • argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
  • aromatherapist — An aromatherapist is a person who is qualified to practise aromatherapy.
  • 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.
  • asarah betevet — a Jewish fast day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tevet in memory of the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem in 586 b.c. by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.
  • asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
  • 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.
  • at one's heels — just behind or following closely
  • at second hand — If you experience something at second hand, you are told about it by other people rather than experiencing it yourself.
  • at the cost of — at the expense of losing
  • at the outside — You use at the outside to say that you think that a particular amount is the largest possible in a particular situation, or that a particular time is the latest possible time for something to happen.
  • athlete's foot — Athlete's foot is a fungal infection in which the skin between the toes becomes cracked or peels off.
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • babies'-breath — baby's breath
  • bachelor chest — a chest of drawers, esp., one for men's shirts, sweaters, underwear, etc.
  • back scratcher — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
  • backhandedness — The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.
  • backside cache — (hardware, processor)   An implementation of secondary cache memory that allows it to be directly accessed by the CPU. Backside cache is used by Apple Computers, Inc. in their PowerPC G3 processor. Previous PowerPC processors used the system bus to access both secondary cache and main memory. In the PowerPC G3 a dedicated bus handles only CPU/cache transactions. This bus can operate faster than the system bus thus improving the overall performance of the processor. The term apparently derives from the relocation of the secondary cache from the motherboard to the processor card itself, i.e. on the backside of the processor card.
  • bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
  • banker's check — cashier's check.
  • 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
  • barrel shifter — (hardware)   A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.
  • barrel-chested — A barrel-chested man has a large, rounded chest.
  • bass saxophone — a large saxophone of low range, usually supported on a stand while being played.
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • 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
  • be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
  • be in the wash — If you say that something such as an item of clothing is in the wash, you mean that it is being washed, is waiting to be washed, or has just been washed and should therefore not be worn or used.
  • béchamel sauce — a thick white sauce flavoured with onion and seasonings
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