14-letter words containing c, h, i, s, n, a
- spanish arabic — the Arabic language as used in Spain during the period of Moorish domination and influence, c900–1500. Abbreviation: SpAr.
- sparring match — a practice boxing match
- special branch — The Special Branch is the department of the British police that is concerned with political security and deals with things such as terrorism and visits by foreign leaders.
- speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- spinthariscope — an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by picking up sparks of light from alpha particles.
- st. catharines — a city in SE Ontario, in SE Canada.
- standard pitch — concert pitch
- station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
- stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
- submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
- surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
- sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
- synchronically — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
- synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
- the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
- trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- trichomoniasis — a sexually transmitted disease typically asymptomatic in men and resulting in vaginitis with a copious, frothy discharge and itching in women, caused by a trichomonad Trichomonas vaginalis.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- tymshare, inc. — (company) The US company that created the TYMNET network.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
- unchauvinistic — not chauvinistic
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
- unenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
- unicorn chaser — originally a picture of a unicorn posted on a blog site shortly after an offensive or disturbing picture has been posted, as a kind of antidote to the previous post. Now used of a comforting or innocent image, video clip, or topic viewed or contemplated following a previous, disturbing image, video, etc.
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- wainscot chair — an armchair of the 17th century, made of oak and having a solid paneled back.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.