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14-letter words containing c, a, n, e, r, u

  • nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
  • nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.
  • nuclear winter — the general devastation of life, along with worldwide darkness and extreme cold, that some scientists believe would result from a global dust cloud screening out sunlight following large-scale nuclear detonations.
  • nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
  • nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
  • null character — Computers. a control character representing nothing, with the value of binary zero, but having special meaning when interpreted as text, as in marking the end of character strings.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • numidian crane — the demoiselle crane
  • nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
  • occupancy rate — The occupancy rate at a hotel is the number of available rooms that are occupied over a period of time.
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • oncornaviruses — Plural form of oncornavirus.
  • ordnance datum — mean sea level calculated from observation taken at Newlyn, Cornwall, and used as the official basis for height calculation on British maps
  • orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overaccentuate — to accentuate too much
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
  • particularness — the quality of being exceptional or individual
  • parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
  • percussion cap — a small metallic cap or cup containing fulminating powder, formerly exploded by percussion to fire the charge of small arms.
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
  • pneumatic tire — wheel cover filled with pressurized air
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polar sequence — a series of stars in the vicinity of the N celestial pole whose accurately determined magnitudes serve as the standard for visual and photographic magnitudes of stars
  • port-au-prince — Formerly Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Capital: Port-au-Prince.
  • practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precariousness — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
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