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14-letter words containing a, c, e

  • atlantic liner — a large passenger ship that regularly crosses the Atlantic Ocean
  • atlantic ocean — the world's second largest ocean, bounded in the north by the Arctic, in the south by the Antarctic, in the west by North and South America, and in the east by Europe and Africa. Greatest depth: 9220 m (30 246 ft). Area: about 81 585 000 sq km (31 500 000 sq miles)
  • 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 reactor — reactor (def 4).
  • atomic veteran — a veteran of the armed forces who was exposed to radioactivity during the testing or use of nuclear (atomic) weapons in World War II or subsequent wars.
  • atomic warfare — war in which nuclear weapons are used
  • atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
  • attractiveness — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game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-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
  • audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
  • auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
  • auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
  • authenticating — to establish as genuine.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • 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.
  • autocorrelator — (electronics) A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autodestructed — Simple past tense and past participle of autodestruct.
  • autopilot code — (jargon, humour)   Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
  • autoreactivity — (immunology) The condition of being autoreactive.
  • avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • average clause — a clause in an insurance policy that distributes the insurance among several items, usually in proportion to their value
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
  • 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.
  • aztec two-step — Montezuma's revenge
  • baccalaureates — Plural form of baccalaureate.
  • bachelor chest — a chest of drawers, esp., one for men's shirts, sweaters, underwear, etc.
  • bachelor party — A bachelor party is a party for a man who is getting married very soon, to which only men are invited.
  • back catalogue — A musical performer's back catalogue is the music which they recorded and released in the past rather than their latest recordings.
  • back clearance — runout (def 1b).
  • back o' beyond — remote; out-of-the-way; isolated.
  • back o' bourke — in a remote or backward place
  • back of beyond — a very remote place
  • back of bourke — a remote area or place.
  • back scratcher — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
  • back to nature — If you want to get back to nature, you want to return to a simpler way of living.
  • back-clearance — Machinery. the gradual termination of a groove on the body of an object not ending there, as the upper termination of a flute in a twist drill. Also called back clearance. a space in a depressed area of an object into which a machine tool or grinding wheel may safely enter at the end of a pass or operation.
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • backbone cabal — (networking)   A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s. The cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal cat-fight.
  • backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
  • backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
  • backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
  • backhandedness — The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.
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