14-letter words containing a, c, i, n, o, u
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
- immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
- immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- in circulation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
- in countenance — calm; composed
- inarticulation — (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
- inauspiciously — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
- incautiousness — The quality of being incautious.
- income account — an account maintained for a particular item of revenue or income.
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- incommunicably — In an incommunicable manner or fashion.
- inconsequentia — Trivia; items or facts of little or no importance.
- indian country — (especially during the U.S. westward migration) any region where one was likely to encounter Indians, especially hostile Indians.
- induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
- intracutaneous — within the skin.
- intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- justifications — Plural form of justification.
- justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- mackinaw trout — lake trout.
- macro-mutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.