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16-letter words containing a, u, n, c, i, e

  • electric furnace — any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
  • elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
  • enriched uranium — uranium in which the proportion of the fissile isotope U-235 has been increased to make it more fissile
  • enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
  • equational logic — (logic)   First-order equational logic consists of quantifier-free terms of ordinary first-order logic, with equality as the only predicate symbol. The model theory of this logic was developed into Universal algebra by Birkhoff et al. [Birkhoff, Gratzer, Cohn]. It was later made into a branch of category theory by Lawvere ("algebraic theories").
  • european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
  • evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
  • exclusion clause — (in a contract) something that serves to limit liabilities
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • facial neuralgia — paroxysmal darting pain and muscular twitching in the face, evoked by rubbing certain points of the face.
  • feeping creature — [feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
  • feminine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after an unstressed or short syllable.
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • franchise clause — a clause stipulating that the insured will be responsible for any loss not in excess of a stated amount, and the insurance company will be liable for full payment of the loss equaling or exceeding the amount up to the insured amount.
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • garcia y iniguez — Calixto [kah-lees-taw] /kɑˈlis tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1839?–98, Cuban lawyer, soldier, and revolutionist.
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
  • giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • hurricane season — annual cyclone period
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
  • impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
  • in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
  • in quintuplicate — in five identical copies
  • inarticulateness — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
  • inauspiciousness — The state, quality, or condition of being inauspicious or unpropitious; unfavorableness.
  • incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • inconsequentials — Plural form of inconsequential.
  • indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
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