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14-letter words containing a, u, r, i, c

  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
  • fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • garcia marquez — Gabriel [gey-bree-uh l,, gah-bree-el;; Spanish gah-vree-el] /ˈgeɪ bri əl,, ˌgɑ briˈɛl;; Spanish ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1927–2014, Colombian novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • general public — people in general
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
  • guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
  • guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hydraulic ramp — a movable ramp operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid
  • hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypercalciuria — an abnormally high amount of calcium in the urine.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
  • hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
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