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

  • anticonvulsive — preventing or alleviating convulsions
  • anticorruption — the opposition to or prevention of corruption
  • antihumanistic — being opposed to humanism
  • antirepublican — opposed to the principles or practice of republicanism
  • antiscriptural — opposed to or contradicting scripture
  • antitubercular — acting against tuberculosis
  • antiulcerative — An antiulcerative is an agent that prevents the formation or promotes the healing of ulcers.
  • any occupation — Any occupation insurance covers a person if they cannot work under any circumstances, in any occupation, following an accident, injury, or disability.
  • aquatic centre — a complex with facilities for water sports, including swimming pools
  • aquifoliaceous — related to the Aquifoliaceae family of plants, the only living genus of which is the holly (Ilex) genus
  • arabic numeral — one of the symbols 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (opposed to Roman numerals)
  • arboricultural — Of or pertaining to the care, planting and maintenance of trees.
  • archebacterium — (biology) alternative spelling of archaebacterium.
  • archipterygium — (anatomy) A primitive fin, like that of Ceratodus.
  • arctic current — a cold ocean current flowing S along the Labrador coast through Davis Strait to the Grand Banks where it divides, the E branch joining the North Atlantic Current and the W branch flowing into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
  • area pellucida — the translucent central area of the blastoderm of birds and reptiles within which the embryo develops.
  • arthroconidium — A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
  • articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • artifactitious — of, relating to, or of the nature of an artifact, or a man-made object that carries cultural significance.
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
  • audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
  • auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
  • auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
  • austro-asiatic — a hypothetical phylum or superfamily of languages consisting of Mon-Khmer and certain other languages of India and South-East Asia. Links with Malayo-Polynesian have also been suggested
  • authenticating — to establish as genuine.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
  • autobiographic — marked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history; of or in the manner of an autobiography: autobiographical material; an autobiographical novel.
  • autocollimator — an instrument combining the functions of a telescope and collimator, for detecting and measuring very small deviations in a beam of light.
  • autoconfiscate — (software, jargon)   A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autocratically — In an autocratic manner.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • automatic door — a self-opening door
  • autopilot code — (jargon, humour)   Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
  • autoreactivity — (immunology) The condition of being autoreactive.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • azimuth circle — a device for measuring azimuths, consisting of a graduated ring equipped with a sighting vane on each side, which fits concentrically over a compass.
  • backup pumpkin — pumpkin
  • balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
  • bamboo curtain — (esp in the 1950s and 1960s) the political and military barrier to communications around the People's Republic of China
  • barbecue grill — a grill used in barbecuing
  • bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • 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.
  • battle cruiser — A battle cruiser is a large fast warship that is lighter than a battleship and moves more easily.
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