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14-letter words containing a, l, i, u, n

  • council tenant — a tenant who rents a council house or council flat
  • count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
  • creatureliness — creatural.
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
  • diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
  • dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
  • drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
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