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

  • armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • arthroconidium — A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
  • articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
  • attitudinarian — a person who assumes an affected attitude
  • attitudinizing — the assumption of an affected attitude
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
  • auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
  • austrian blind — a window blind consisting of rows of vertically gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • authenticating — to establish as genuine.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • authorisations — Plural form of authorisation.
  • authoritarians — Plural form of authoritarian.
  • authorizations — Plural form of authorization.
  • autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
  • autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
  • autoconfiscate — (software, jargon)   A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autoionization — the process in which spontaneous decay of excited atoms or molecules results in emission of electrons, rather than photons
  • automatization — to make automatic.
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
  • autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
  • auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
  • auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • backup pumpkin — pumpkin
  • balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
  • bamboo curtain — (esp in the 1950s and 1960s) the political and military barrier to communications around the People's Republic of China
  • bamboo turning — turning of spindles and framing members to simulate the jointing of bamboo.
  • bank annuities — British government bonds; consols
  • bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • basso continuo — continuo.
  • bathing beauty — an attractive girl in a swimming costume
  • bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
  • beaten biscuit — a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.
  • beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
  • bellingshausen — Fabian Gottlieb von [fey-bee-uh n-got-leeb von] /ˈfeɪ bi ənˈgɒt lib vɒn/ (Show IPA), (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshauzen) 1778–1852, Russian naval officer and explorer.
  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
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