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14-letter words containing a, t, s, e, c, o

  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • subarborescent — below or under trees
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • superpatriotic — characteristic of a superpatriot
  • surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • tax concession — tax reduction
  • teach a lesson — give a class, give instruction
  • telescope peak — a mountain in SE California: highest peak in the Panamint Range, above Death Valley. 11,049 feet (3368 meters).
  • telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
  • tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • the cretaceous — the Cretaceous period or rock system
  • 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
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • 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.
  • thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
  • to be the case — If you say that something is the case, you mean that it is true or correct.
  • to close ranks — If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
  • top-hat scheme — a pension scheme for the senior executives of an organization
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
  • transcutaneous — by way of or through the skin.
  • transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
  • treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
  • trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • uncollectables — things that are not collectable
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • unconsolidated — brought together into a single whole.
  • undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
  • unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
  • unsophisticate — not sophisticated
  • variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
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