14-letter words containing s, r
- (the) odds are — the likelihood is
- a bed of roses — a situation of comfort or ease
- a can of worms — If you say that someone is opening a can of worms, you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something which is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize and which might be better left alone.
- a crying shame — You can say that something is a crying shame if you are annoyed and upset about it.
- a dog's dinner — something that is messy or bungled
- a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
- a grands frais — at great cost or expense.
- a head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- a l'improviste — all of a sudden; unexpectedly; suddenly.
- a la francaise — in the French manner
- abbe condenser — a microscope condenser invented by Ernst Abbe (1840-1905), German physicist
- abducens nerve — cranial nerve
- aberdeen angus — a black hornless breed of beef cattle originating in Scotland
- aboriculturist — One skilled in arboricultural matters; one who plants, tends and maintains trees.
- abortifacients — Plural form of abortifacient.
- absaroka range — a range in S Montana and NW Wyoming: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, 13,140 feet (4005 meters).
- absentee voter — a voter who votes in advance because of being unable to go to the polling place.
- absorbefacient — a medicine or other agent that promotes absorption
- absorbing well — a well for draining off surface water and conducting it to absorbent earth underground.
- absorptiometer — an instrument that measures absorption of light, esp by a solution
- absorptiometry — (chemistry) Analysis using an absorptiometer.
- absorptiveness — the quality of being absorptive
- abstract class — (programming) In object-oriented programming, a class designed only as a parent from which sub-classes may be derived, but which is not itself suitable for instantiation. Often used to "abstract out" incomplete sets of features which may then be shared by a group of sibling sub-classes which add different variations of the missing pieces.
- abstract music — absolute music.
- abstract space — a space whose elements are not geometric points, especially a function space.
- abstractedness — The state of being abstracted; abstract character. (First attested in the mid 17th century.).
- abstractionism — the theory and practice of the abstract, esp of abstract art
- abstractionist — a person who produces abstract works of art.
- academic dress — formal dress, usually comprising cap, gown, and hood, worn by university staff and students
- accelerometers — Plural form of accelerometer.
- accessory cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
- accessory shoe — a bracket on top of a camera to which a flash unit or other accessory may be fitted
- accreditations — Plural form of accreditation.
- accretion disc — the disc formed around a celestial body by the process of accretion
- accretion disk — the rapidly spinning disk of gas that forms around the more compact component of a close binary star system as mass is transferred to the compact companion from the primary star.
- accusatorially — By way of accusation; in an accusatorial manner; by means of a formal accuser.
- achondroplasia — a skeletal disorder, characterized by failure of normal conversion of cartilage into bone, that begins during fetal life and results in dwarfism
- acleistocardia — a failure of the foramen ovale of the heart to close.
- acoustic nerve — either one of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from the organs of hearing and from the semicircular canals to the brain.
- acquired taste — If you describe something as an acquired taste, you mean that a lot of people do not like it when they first experience it, but often start to like it more when they get to know it better.
- across country — If you travel across country, you travel through country areas, avoiding major roads and towns.
- across the way — If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area.
- acta sanctorum — a collection of lives of the saints edited by Jesuit scholars and first published in Antwerp in 1643
- active service — Someone who is on active service is taking part in a war as a member of the armed forces.
- active shooter — a person who is presently using a gun to shoot people in a confined and populated area.
- adder's-tongue — any of several terrestrial ferns of the genus Ophioglossum, esp O. vulgatum, that grow in the N hemisphere and have a spore-bearing body that sticks out like a spike from the leaf: family Ophioglossaceae
- address strobe — (storage) (AS) One of the input signals of a memory device, especially semiconductor memory, which is asserted to tell the memory device that the address inputs are valid. Upon receiving this signal the selected memory device starts the memory access (read/write) indicated by its other inputs. It may be driven directly by the processor or by a memory controller.
- addressability — (computing) The capability of a microprocessor etc. to deal with values of a certain size using a single instruction.
- adenosclerosis — (medicine) The hardening of a gland.
- adjutant stork — a large Indian stork, Leptoptilus dubius, having a pinkish-brown neck and bill, a large naked pouch under the throat, and a military gait.
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