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

  • apportionments — Plural form of apportionment.
  • approach stage — the stage of landing when a plane is approaching the runway
  • arborsculpture — The art and craft technique of growing and shaping tree trunks.
  • archaeologists — Plural form of archaeologist.
  • archaeometrist — a person who uses archaeometry
  • architectonics — the science of architecture
  • arctic monkeys — British rock group (formed 2002): comprising Alex Turner (born 1986; vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (born 1985, guitar), Matt Helders (born 1986, drums, vocals) and Nick O'Malley (born 1985, bass guitar); their albums include Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), and AM (2013)
  • argonne forest — a wooded region in NE France: battles, World War I, 1918; World War II, 1944.
  • argue the toss — to wrangle or dispute at length
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • arkansas stone — a type of stone used as a whetstone for metal objects, especially knives.
  • arms inspector — a person who carries out an arms inspection
  • aromatherapist — An aromatherapist is a person who is qualified to practise aromatherapy.
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • 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.
  • as a matter of — If you are going to do something as a matter of urgency or priority, you are going to do it as soon as possible, because it is important.
  • assault course — An assault course is an area of land covered with obstacles such as walls which people, especially soldiers, use to improve their skills and strength.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • barbados earth — a diatomaceous marl found in Barbados
  • 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
  • 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
  • belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
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