14-letter words containing a, c, t, u, r, e
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
- guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
- guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
- hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
- hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- inaccurateness — The quality of being inaccurate.
- inarticulately — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- 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
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- insular celtic — a partly geographical, partly genetic grouping of Celtic languages that consists of those spoken in the British Isles in ancient times and those descended from them.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- interarticular — of or relating to the joints.
- interinsurance — reciprocal insurance.
- intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
- intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- interpunctuate — to insert punctuation marks in (a written text)
- intracutaneous — within the skin.
- intramercurial — within Mercury's orbit
- intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.