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

  • terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
  • tetanus toxoid — an inactivated form of tetanus toxin obtained from Clostridium tetani, used to produce an active immunity to the toxin.
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the humanities — the study of literature, philosophy, and the arts
  • the mujaheddin — (in Afghanistan and Iran) fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas; in Afghanistan in 1992 the mujaheddin overthrew the government but were unable to agree on a constitution due to factional conflict and in 1996 Taliban forces seized power
  • the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • thomas aquinas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
  • tintinnabulate — to ring
  • titanium white — a pigment used in painting, consisting chiefly of titanium dioxide and noted for its brilliant white color, covering power, and permanence.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
  • trade unionist — a member of a trade union.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • traitorousness — the quality or state of being traitorous
  • transcaucasian — a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic) area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
  • transductional — of or relating to transduction
  • transfusionist — a medical professional who transfuses blood into someone
  • transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • transsexuality — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • transvaluation — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
  • traumatization — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
  • tried and true — tested and found to be reliable or workable.
  • tried-and-true — tested and found to be reliable or workable.
  • trinity sunday — the Sunday after Pentecost, observed as a festival in honor of the Trinity.
  • truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
  • trumpet marine — an obsolete musical instrument having a long, wooden, pyramid-shaped body, characteristically with one string that is touched with the finger to produce harmonics and is bowed between the touching finger and the upper end.
  • trustification — the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts: the trustification of the oil business.
  • tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
  • tubuai islands — a chain of small islands extending about 1400 km (850 miles) in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia; discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; annexed by France in 1880. Pop: 1979 (2002). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
  • tunnel disease — aeroembolism (def 2).
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
  • turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
  • turn indicator — a flight instrument that indicates the angular rate of turn of an aircraft about its vertical axis.
  • turn on a dime — change direction quickly
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
  • ultra-feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
  • ultra-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
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