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

  • authoritarians — Plural form of authoritarian.
  • authorizations — Plural form of authorization.
  • bachelor chest — a chest of drawers, esp., one for men's shirts, sweaters, underwear, etc.
  • bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
  • bang to rights — caught red-handed
  • barbados earth — a diatomaceous marl found in Barbados
  • 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
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • british dollar — any of several coins formerly issued by the British Empire for use in certain territories, as the Straits dollar or the Hong Kong dollar.
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
  • brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
  • catastrophical — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
  • charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
  • charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
  • charter school — an alternative school that is founded on a charter, or contract, between a sponsoring group and a governmental unit and is funded with public money
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
  • chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
  • chisholm trail — cattle trail from San Antonio, Tex., to Abilene, Kans.: important from 1865 until the 1880s
  • cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
  • chondromatosis — a painful and immobilizing condition that affects the joints, in particular the elbow, hip, and knee joints, and results in the synovial tissue becoming cartilaginous
  • choral society — an organization of amateur singers
  • chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
  • christmas rose — an evergreen ranunculaceous plant, Helleborus niger, of S Europe and W Asia, with white or pinkish winter-blooming flowers
  • chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
  • chromatophores — Plural form of chromatophore.
  • claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • cost the earth — to be very expensive
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • courtesy coach — a free coach
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