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14-letter words containing a, u, t, o, e

  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • inter-european — of or relating to Europe or its inhabitants.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intracutaneous — within the skin.
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
  • journal intime — a personal or private diary.
  • judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
  • junior partner — a partner in a law firm or financial organisation who has less responsibility than a senior partner
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
  • kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
  • keep a lookout — If someone keeps a lookout, especially on a boat, they look around all the time in order to make sure there is no danger.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
  • leucocythaemia — leukaemia
  • leucocytopenia — leucopenia
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • macrostructure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
  • magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
  • make a fortune — win, earn a vast amount of money
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • melastomaceous — belonging to the family Melastomataceae (also known as Melastomaceae)
  • mercapto group — the univalent group –SH.
  • mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
  • methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
  • metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
  • microminiature — built on an extremely small scale, smaller than subminiature, especially of electronic equipment with small solid-state components in the place of vacuum tubes.
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