14-letter words containing a, c, r, e, t
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- isentropically — in an isentropic manner
- isodiametrical — isodiametric
- italian clover — crimson clover.
- j/psi particle — the lightest of the psi particles, the first particle to be discovered that contains a charmed quark.
- jack crosstree — jack1 (def 9b).
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- kinematic pair — pair1 (def 10).
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
- lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
- lateran palace — a palace in Rome used as the papal residence from the 4th century a.d. to the removal of the papal court to Avignon, rebuilt in 1586, and now a museum for classical and Christian antiques.
- latin american — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
- lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
- lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
- lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
- leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
- leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
- leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
- lechatelierite — a mineral, an amorphous form of silica formed by the fusion by heat of silica and found in fulgurites.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- lethal chamber — a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.
- letter carrier — mail carrier.
- levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- little america — a base in the Antarctic, on the Bay of Whales, S of the Ross Sea: established by Adm. Richard E. Byrd of the U.S. Navy in 1929; used for later Antarctic expeditions.
- little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
- logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
- long-term care — continuing help and attention
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- macroaggregate — A relatively large aggregated particle.
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- macrostructure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.