14-letter words containing t, r, i, e, h
- authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
- autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
- azimuth circle — a device for measuring azimuths, consisting of a graduated ring equipped with a sighting vane on each side, which fits concentrically over a compass.
- babies'-breath — baby's breath
- bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
- baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
- bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
- barium-hydrate — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
- 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.
- barrier method — Barrier methods of contraception involve the use of condoms, diaphragms, or other devices that physically prevent the sperm from reaching the egg.
- basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
- be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
- 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 struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
- belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
- beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
- big brotherism — paternalistic authoritarianism that seeks to supply the needs and regulate the conduct of people.
- big red switch — (jargon) (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
- bishop's mitre — a European heteropterous bug, Aelia acuminata, whose larvae are a pest of cereal grasses: family Pentatomidae
- bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
- bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
- bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
- british empire — (formerly) the United Kingdom and the territories under its control, which reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I when it embraced over a quarter of the world's population and more than a quarter of the world's land surface
- british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
- british museum — a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
- brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- catachrestical — Catachrestic.
- catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
- catcher's mitt — the glove worn by the catcher to protect the hands
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
- centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- cercopithecoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys)
- chain reaction — A chain reaction is a series of chemical changes, each of which causes the next.
- chalcotrichite — a fibrous variety of cuprite.
- characterising — Present participle of characterise.
- characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
- characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.