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14-letter words containing a, t, e, n, i

  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
  • isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
  • italian clover — crimson clover.
  • italian sonnet — Petrarchan sonnet.
  • job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
  • joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
  • journal intime — a personal or private diary.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • junior partner — a partner in a law firm or financial organisation who has less responsibility than a senior partner
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
  • kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
  • karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
  • keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • kindergartener — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • kinematic pair — pair1 (def 10).
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • lantern pinion — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
  • lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • lateralisation — Alternative spelling of lateralization.
  • lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • latin american — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
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