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14-letter words containing ia

  • arabian coffee — a tall, widely cultivated shrub (Coffea arabica) of the madder family, yielding coffee beans that are the world's chief source of commercially produced coffee: native to Africa but now present throughout the tropics, esp. in Brazil
  • arabian desert — a desert in E Egypt, between the Nile, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea: mountainous parts rise over 1800 m (6000 ft). Area: about 220 000 sq km (85 000 sq miles)
  • arabian nights — Thea collection of ancient tales from Arabia, India, Persia, etc.
  • arcado-cyprian — an ancient language group of eastern Greece.
  • archaebacteria — (formerly) a group of microorganisms now regarded as members of the Archaea
  • archgenethliac — the person most proficient at casting horoscopes
  • archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
  • argand diagram — a diagram in which complex numbers are represented by the points in the plane the coordinates of which are respectively the real and imaginary parts of the number, so that the number x + iy is represented by the point (x, y), or by the corresponding vector <x, y>. If the polar coordinates of (x, y) are (r, θ), r is the modulus and θ the argument of x + iy
  • artificial ear — a device consisting of microelectrodes that deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve when surgically implanted into the cochlea, enabling a person with sensorineural deafness to hear.
  • artificial eye — a manufactured eye of glass, plastic, or other material, usually hemispherical or cup-shaped, worn cosmetically over a blind eye or in the socket of a lost eye and sometimes attached to muscles to provide movement.
  • artificialized — Simple past tense and past participle of artificialize.
  • artificialness — the condition of being non-natural, unnatural or spurious
  • asian-american — of or connected with Americans of Asian ancestry
  • asiatic beetle — a Japanese scarabaeid beetle, Anomala orientalis, introduced into Hawaii and the northeastern US: a serious pest of sugar cane and cereal crops because it destroys the roots
  • associableness — The state or quality of being associable.
  • associated gas — Associated gas is raw natural gas that comes through crude oil wells.
  • associationism — a theory that all mental activity is based on connections between basic mental events, such as sensations and feelings
  • associationist — a person who is a member of a group or organization
  • asthenospermia — (medicine) Loss or reduction in the strength or energy of sperm cells, hence infertility. Not always infertile many are subfertile.
  • atrial flutter — irregular heart rhythm
  • attitudinarian — a person who assumes an affected attitude
  • austrian blind — a window blind consisting of rows of vertically gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • austro-asiatic — a hypothetical phylum or superfamily of languages consisting of Mon-Khmer and certain other languages of India and South-East Asia. Links with Malayo-Polynesian have also been suggested
  • authoritarians — Plural form of authoritarian.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
  • auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
  • auxiliary verb — a verb used to indicate the tense, voice, mood, etc, of another verb where this is not indicated by inflection, such as English will in he will go, was in he was eating and he was eaten, do in I do like you, etc
  • aviation badge — wings.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
  • axial skeleton — the bones that together comprise the skull and the vertebral column
  • bactrian camel — a two-humped camel, Camelus bactrianus, used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia
  • batrachophobia — fear of amphibians
  • bavarian cream — a cold dessert consisting of a rich custard set with gelatine and flavoured in various ways
  • belgian endive — endive (def 2).
  • belgian-endive — endive (def 2).
  • beneficialness — the state of being beneficial
  • benzodiazepine — any of a group of chemical compounds that are used as minor tranquillizers, such as diazepam (Valium) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
  • bibliomaniacal — relating to a bibliomaniac
  • bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
  • billiard table — the rectangular table used for playing billiards
  • bioremediation — the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils and water
  • black diamonds — carbonado1 .
  • bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
  • bottle gentian — closed gentian.
  • bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
  • brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
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