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

  • emergency call — a telephone call to the emergency services made during an emergency
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
  • energy balance — An energy balance is a consideration of the energy input, output, and consumption or generation in a process or stage.
  • energy company — a company that produces energy, such as electricity
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • every man jack — everyone without exception
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
  • financial year — law: annual accounting period
  • french academy — an association of 40 scholars and men and women of letters, established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu and devoted chiefly to preserving the purity of the French language and establishing standards of proper usage.
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hyperlactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperresonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
  • hypersonically — In a hypersonic way.
  • hypertechnical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
  • hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
  • iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
  • ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
  • idiosyncracies — Plural form of idiosyncracy.
  • idiosyncrasies — a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
  • inarticulately — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
  • inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
  • incorporeality — not corporeal or material; insubstantial.
  • indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
  • 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
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