14-letter words that end in e
- antilymphocyte — (immunology, of an antibody) That acts against lymphocytes.
- antimetabolite — any drug that acts by disrupting the normal growth of a cell. Sulfonamide drugs are antimetabolites and some antimetabolites are used in cancer treatment
- antireflective — treated in some way to prevent reflection
- antiulcerative — An antiulcerative is an agent that prevents the formation or promotes the healing of ulcers.
- appearance fee — An appearance fee is money paid to a famous person such as a sports star or film star for taking part in a public event.
- approach stage — the stage of landing when a plane is approaching the runway
- aquatic centre — a complex with facilities for water sports, including swimming pools
- 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
- arborsculpture — The art and craft technique of growing and shaping tree trunks.
- arc-jet engine — a type of rocket engine using propellant gas heated by an electric arc.
- archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
- arkansas stone — a type of stone used as a whetstone for metal objects, especially knives.
- arriere-pensee — an unrevealed thought or intention
- 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.
- as big as life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- ascending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the north (opposed to descending node).
- 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
- asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
- 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.
- assessed value — the value of something as determined by an assessor, especially the value of real property.
- assisted place — a place at a private school reserved for a pupil from a family with a low income, with the fees paid by the government
- astigmatoscope — an instrument for determining the presence and severity of astigmatism.
- 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 the outside — You use at the outside to say that you think that a particular amount is the largest possible in a particular situation, or that a particular time is the latest possible time for something to happen.
- atlas autocode — (language) The Autocode for the Ferranti Atlas, which may have been the first commercial computer with hardware-paged virtual memory. Whereas other autocodes were basically assembly languages, Atlas Autocode was high-level and block-structured, resembling a cross between Fortran and ALGOL 60. It had call-by value, loops, declarations, complex numbers, pointers, heap and stack storage generators, dynamic arrays, and extensible syntax.
- atomic warfare — war in which nuclear weapons are used
- attention line — a line of text after the address on a piece of correspondence, directing it to a particular person or department.
- attrition rate — the rate at which customers or subscribers switch from one supplier to another
- auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
- audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
- audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
- audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
- auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
- auld lang syne — Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song about friendship that is traditionally sung as clocks strike midnight on New Year's Eve.
- aurothiomalate — (chemistry) A thiomalate with the addition of gold.
- austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
- 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.
- autoconfiscate — (software, jargon) A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
- autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
- autopilot code — (jargon, humour) Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
- autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
- 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.
- ave atque vale — hail and farewell: from an ode of Catullus in commemoration of his dead brother
- average clause — a clause in an insurance policy that distributes the insurance among several items, usually in proportion to their value
- aviation badge — wings.
- 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.
- azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
- 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.
- back catalogue — A musical performer's back catalogue is the music which they recorded and released in the past rather than their latest recordings.