14-letter words containing a, u, d, i, e, n
- justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
- kidney failure — loss of renal function
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- levulinic acid — a white or colorless, water-soluble solid, C 5 H 8 O 3 , produced by the hydrolysis of cane sugar, starch, or cellulose; used chiefly in the organic synthesis of nylon, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
- mountain guide — a trained professional mountaineer who guides climbers up a mountain
- multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
- multinucleated — Having multiple nuclei; multinucleate.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- neuroradiology — the branch of radiology dealing with the central nervous system
- nitroguanidine — (chemistry) A colourless, crystalline solid manufactured from guanine and used in explosives and pesticides.
- non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- noneducational — not educational or related to education
- nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- nonrepudiation — (legal) Assurance that a contract cannot later be denied by either of the parties involved.
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- numidian crane — the demoiselle crane
- ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
- painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
- painted tongue — a Chilean plant, Salpiglossis sinuata, of the nightshade family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
- painted turtle — a freshwater turtle, Chrysemys picta, common in the U.S., having bright yellow markings on the head and neck and red markings on the margin of the carapace.
- paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
- para-toluidine — a white, flaky, lustrous, very slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 9 N, the para isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes, in organic synthesis, and as a reagent in tests for nitrite, lignin, and phloroglucinol.
- pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
- quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
- quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
- quarter window — (on a car) a small triangular side window with hinges that can be opened for extra ventilation