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14-letter words containing a, s, u, e

  • antiquatedness — The state or quality of being antiquated.
  • antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
  • antiuniversity — a group or institution which disregards the established traditions or practices of university education
  • anyone's guess — something difficult to predict
  • aphthous fever — foot-and-mouth disease.
  • aqueous humour — the watery fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens
  • aquifoliaceous — related to the Aquifoliaceae family of plants, the only living genus of which is the holly (Ilex) genus
  • arborsculpture — The art and craft technique of growing and shaping tree trunks.
  • area vasculosa — that part of the area opaca in which the blood cells and vessels are formed.
  • argue the toss — to wrangle or dispute at length
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
  • armamentariums — Plural form of armamentarium.
  • articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • as all get-out — to a considerable degree; greatly
  • as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
  • asparagus bean — a trailing, long-stemmed Asian vine, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, of the legume family, having yellow or violet flowers and very long pods.
  • asparagus fern — a fernlike species of asparagus, A. plumosus, native to southern Africa
  • asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
  • assault course — An assault course is an area of land covered with obstacles such as walls which people, especially soldiers, use to improve their skills and strength.
  • assault jacket — a protective jacketlike garment, armored so as to resist bullets, knives, etc., worn especially by police officers for defense against attack.
  • assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
  • assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
  • assessed value — the value of something as determined by an assessor, especially the value of real property.
  • at the outside — You use at the outside to say that you think that a particular amount is the largest possible in a particular situation, or that a particular time is the latest possible time for something to happen.
  • atlas autocode — (language)   The Autocode for the Ferranti Atlas, which may have been the first commercial computer with hardware-paged virtual memory. Whereas other autocodes were basically assembly languages, Atlas Autocode was high-level and block-structured, resembling a cross between Fortran and ALGOL 60. It had call-by value, loops, declarations, complex numbers, pointers, heap and stack storage generators, dynamic arrays, and extensible syntax.
  • 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
  • audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
  • audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
  • augean stables — the stables, not cleaned for 30 years, where King Augeas kept 3000 oxen. Hercules diverted the River Alpheus through them and cleaned them in a day
  • auld lang syne — Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song about friendship that is traditionally sung as clocks strike midnight on New Year's Eve.
  • auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
  • aussie battler — an Australian working-class person
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • 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.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autodestructed — Simple past tense and past participle of autodestruct.
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
  • autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
  • 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
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • average clause — a clause in an insurance policy that distributes the insurance among several items, usually in proportion to their value
  • baby blue-eyes — a native Calif. wildflower (Nemophila menziesii) of the waterleaf family with bell-shaped flowers
  • baby-blue-eyes — any of several plants of the genus Nemophila, of western North America, especially N. menziesii, a low-growing plant having blue, white-centered flowers.
  • baccalaureates — Plural form of baccalaureate.
  • ball of muscle — a very strong, fit, or forceful person
  • balsam of peru — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
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