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14-letter words containing a, n, t, e, c, h

  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • spinthariscope — an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by picking up sparks of light from alpha particles.
  • st. catharines — a city in SE Ontario, in SE Canada.
  • stand a chance — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • stand the pace — to keep up with the speed or rate of others
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stock exchange — a building or place where stocks and other securities are bought and sold.
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • take the count — to be unable to continue after a count of ten
  • teach a lesson — give a class, give instruction
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
  • technical area — the area at the side of the pitch to which managers, trainers, coaches, etc are restricted during play
  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
  • telephone call — contact by phone
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
  • the human race — mankind
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the palaeocene — the Palaeocene epoch or rock series
  • the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
  • the soo canals — the two ship canals linking Lakes Superior and Huron. There is a canal on the Canadian and on the US side of the rapids of the St Mary's River
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • therianthropic — being partly bestial and partly human in form.
  • 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.
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • throw a wrench — If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
  • ticket machine — automated ticket dispenser
  • to change tack — If you change tack or try a different tack, you try a different method for dealing with a situation.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • trench warfare — combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.
  • trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
  • trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • unauthenticity — the quality of lacking authenticity or not being genuine
  • unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
  • unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
  • unit character — a characteristic, usually controlled by a single gene, that is transmitted as a unit in heredity.
  • unmathematical — not characterized by or using the precision of mathematics; inexact; imprecise
  • unmerchantable — (of goods) not suitable for trading
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
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