14-letter words containing a, e, r, o, s, c
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
- streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- subarborescent — below or under trees
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- superpatriotic — characteristic of a superpatriot
- supramolecular — having an organization more complex than that of a molecule.
- surface worker — a person who works on or near the ground surface
- surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
- sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
- sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
- tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
- terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
- tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
- tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
- the cretaceous — the Cretaceous period or rock system
- thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- to close ranks — If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
- transcutaneous — by way of or through the skin.
- transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
- treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
- unicorn chaser — originally a picture of a unicorn posted on a blog site shortly after an offensive or disturbing picture has been posted, as a kind of antidote to the previous post. Now used of a comforting or innocent image, video clip, or topic viewed or contemplated following a previous, disturbing image, video, etc.
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- van conversion — van2 (def 4).
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- varicose veins — swollen blood vessels
- velasco ibarra — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1979, Ecuadorean political leader: president 1934–35, 1944–47, 1952–56, 1960–61, 1968–72.
- vernix caseosa — the fatty matter, consisting chiefly of dead epidermal cells and sebaceous secretions, covering the skin of a fetus and newborn.
- villa cisneros — former name of Dakhla (def 2).
- warehouse club — A warehouse club is a large shop which sells goods at reduced prices to people who pay each year to become members of the organization that runs the shop.
- waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
- water moccasin — the cottonmouth.