14-letter words containing a, n, c, t
- north carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
- north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
- north caucasus — a region in the S Russian Federation in Europe, E of the Black Sea.
- north germanic — the subbranch of Germanic that includes the languages of Scandinavia and Iceland.
- northern canoe — a large, heavy canoe used to transport supplies.
- nostro account — a bank account conducted by a British bank with a foreign bank, usually in the foreign currency
- not a patch on — not nearly as good as
- notched collar — a collar forming a notch with the lapels of a garment at the seam where collar and lapels join.
- noticeableness — The quality of being noticeable.
- novelistically — In a novelistic way.
- nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
- nuclear winter — the general devastation of life, along with worldwide darkness and extreme cold, that some scientists believe would result from a global dust cloud screening out sunlight following large-scale nuclear detonations.
- nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- null character — Computers. a control character representing nothing, with the value of binary zero, but having special meaning when interpreted as text, as in marking the end of character strings.
- numismatically — Of or relating to coins or currency.
- nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
- nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
- occipital bone — a curved, compound bone forming the back and part of the base of the skull.
- occult balance — asymmetrical balance of visual elements in an artistic composition.
- occupancy rate — The occupancy rate at a hotel is the number of available rooms that are occupied over a period of time.
- occupationally — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- oceanic trench — a long narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust, usually lying above a subduction zone
- octal notation — a number system having a base 8: often used in computing, one octal digit being equivalent to a group of three bits
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
- old-man cactus — a Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, having a columnar body from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) high with thatchlike, long, white hairs on the top, and red flowers with white centers.
- old-time dance — a formal or formation dance, such as the lancers
- omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
- on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
- on the surface — to all appearances
- one-way ticket — transport: single-journey fare
- oneirocritical — an interpreter of dreams.
- online catalog — a bibliographic record of a library's holdings, available in machine-readable form.
- opaque context — an expression in which the replacement of a term by another with the same reference may change the truth-value of the whole. John believes that Cicero was a Roman is opaque, since even though Cicero and Tully are the same person John may know that the given statement is true but not that Tully was a Roman
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
- operation code — (programming) (Always "op code" when spoken) The part or parts of a machine language instruction which determines what kind of action the computer should take, e.g. add, jump, load, store. In any particular instruction set certain fixed bit positions within the instruction word contain the op code, others give parameters such as the addresses or registers involved. For example, in a 32-bit instruction the most significant eight bits might be the op code giving 256 possible operations. For some instruction sets, certain values in the fixed bit positions may select a group of operations and the exact operation may depend on other bits within instruction word or subsequent words. When programming in assembly language, the op code is represented by a readable name called an instruction mnemonic.
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
- ordinary stock — British. common stock.
- ordnance datum — mean sea level calculated from observation taken at Newlyn, Cornwall, and used as the official basis for height calculation on British maps
- organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
- organic matter — matter derived from organisms, esp decayed matter in soil
- organometallic — pertaining to or noting an organic compound containing a metal or a metalloid linked to carbon.
- ornithischians — Plural form of ornithischian.
- ornithological — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
- orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
- osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
- osteogenically — By osteogenesis.