14-letter words containing t, e, n, h
- preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
- progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
- project athena — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
- prominent moth — any moth of the family Notodontidae characterized by tufts of scales on the back edge of the forewing that stand up prominently at rest and give the group its name. It includes the puss moth and buff-tip as well as those with prominent in the name
- psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
- psychotechnics — the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- put on the map — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- put on the pan — to criticize severely
- put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- put the lid on — to be the final blow to
- put the moz on — to jinx
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
- pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
- queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
- radiant heater — a heater that heats a building by radiant heat emitted from panels containing electrical conductors, hot water, etc
- radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
- raunch culture — a culture which promotes overtly sexual representations of women, as through the acceptance of pornography, stripping, nudity in advertising, etc, esp when this is encouraged by women
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
- rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
- rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
- richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- richard trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
- ride at anchor — to be anchored
- ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right reverend — an official form of address for abbots, abbesses, Anglican bishops, and other prelates.
- right triangle — a triangle having a right angle (contrasted with oblique triangle).
- rna synthetase — an enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of RNA in cells infected with RNA viruses, allowing production of copies of the viral RNA.
- roentgenograph — roentgenogram.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
- röntgenography — radiography
- rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
- round the bend — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
- sachsen-anhalt — German name of Saxony-Anhalt.