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14-letter words containing a, c, o, e, n, s

  • popping crease — a line parallel to and in advance of a bowling crease, marking the limit of a batsman's approach in hitting the ball.
  • post-cartesian — of or relating to Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
  • post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
  • postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
  • precariousness — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
  • pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
  • prosencephalon — the forebrain.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • quasi-economic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
  • quinquecostate — having five lines or ribs
  • quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
  • race relations — relationships between races
  • ranunculaceous — belonging to the Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family of plants.
  • re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
  • reconnaissance — the act of reconnoitering.
  • reconnoissance — the act of reconnoitering.
  • reconsecration — the act of consecrating; dedication to the service and worship of a deity.
  • reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • rostrocarinate — a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies.
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • salade niçoise — a cold dish consisting of hard-boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, olives, tomatoes, tuna fish, etc
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • san jose scale — a scale insect, Aspidiotus perniciosus, that is highly destructive to fruit trees and shrubs throughout the U.S.
  • sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
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