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

  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autoionization — the process in which spontaneous decay of excited atoms or molecules results in emission of electrons, rather than photons
  • automatization — to make automatic.
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
  • autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
  • auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
  • auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
  • bamboo curtain — (esp in the 1950s and 1960s) the political and military barrier to communications around the People's Republic of China
  • bamboo turning — turning of spindles and framing members to simulate the jointing of bamboo.
  • bank annuities — British government bonds; consols
  • bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • basso continuo — continuo.
  • bathing beauty — an attractive girl in a swimming costume
  • bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
  • beaten biscuit — a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.
  • beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
  • binary counter — (electronics, hardware)   A digital circuit which has a clock input and a number of count outputs which give the number of clock cycles. The output may change either on rising or falling clock edges. The circuit may also have a reset input which sets all outputs to zero when asserted. The counter may be either a synchronous counter or a ripple counter.
  • bioaeronautics — the use of aircraft in the discovery, development, and protection of natural and biological resources
  • bird sanctuary — an area of land in which birds are protected and encouraged to breed
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • brazil current — a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean flowing SE along the E coast of Brazil.
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • captain crunch — 1.   (person)   ("Cap'n Crunch") An early 1970s hacker/phreaker/phacker who used a free whistle included with "Cap'n Crunch" breakfast cereal to fake pay phone system tones and make large quantities of free phone calls. Also alludes to "crunch". 2. (After the above) wardialer. 3. Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interrupt stack.
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
  • circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
  • circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
  • circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
  • circumnutation — the irregular spiral or elliptical rotation of the apex of a growing stem, root, or shoot, caused by differences in the rate of growth of the opposite sides
  • circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
  • circumrotation — Rotation or revolution around an axis.
  • circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
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