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

  • amusement park — An amusement park is the same as a funfair.
  • amusement ride — a device at a fair, theme park, etc that people can ride in
  • analogue watch — a watch in which the hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds are indicated by hands on a dial
  • andy tanenbaum — Andrew Tanenbaum
  • angustifoliate — having thin or narrow leaves
  • antediluvially — in antediluvian times, in times before the Flood
  • anti-bourgeois — opposed to anyone or anything considered bourgeois
  • anti-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • anti-incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
  • anti-neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
  • anticonvulsive — preventing or alleviating convulsions
  • antifilibuster — a person or method in opposition to filibustering
  • antihomosexual — opposed to homosexual people and behaviour
  • antimoniferous — Containing or producing antimony.
  • antiquatedness — The state or quality of being antiquated.
  • antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
  • antirepublican — opposed to the principles or practice of republicanism
  • antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
  • antitubercular — acting against tuberculosis
  • antiulcerative — An antiulcerative is an agent that prevents the formation or promotes the healing of ulcers.
  • antiuniversity — a group or institution which disregards the established traditions or practices of university education
  • aperture ratio — relative aperture.
  • aphthous fever — foot-and-mouth disease.
  • apple turnover — a pastry containing apple
  • aquatic centre — a complex with facilities for water sports, including swimming pools
  • arborsculpture — The art and craft technique of growing and shaping tree trunks.
  • 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.
  • argue the toss — to wrangle or dispute at length
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
  • armamentariums — Plural form of armamentarium.
  • articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • as all get-out — to a considerable degree; greatly
  • as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
  • asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
  • assault course — An assault course is an area of land covered with obstacles such as walls which people, especially soldiers, use to improve their skills and strength.
  • assault jacket — a protective jacketlike garment, armored so as to resist bullets, knives, etc., worn especially by police officers for defense against attack.
  • assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
  • assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
  • at full length — stretched out; completely extended
  • at the outside — You use at the outside to say that you think that a particular amount is the largest possible in a particular situation, or that a particular time is the latest possible time for something to happen.
  • atlas autocode — (language)   The Autocode for the Ferranti Atlas, which may have been the first commercial computer with hardware-paged virtual memory. Whereas other autocodes were basically assembly languages, Atlas Autocode was high-level and block-structured, resembling a cross between Fortran and ALGOL 60. It had call-by value, loops, declarations, complex numbers, pointers, heap and stack storage generators, dynamic arrays, and extensible syntax.
  • atrial flutter — irregular heart rhythm
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
  • audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • augean stables — the stables, not cleaned for 30 years, where King Augeas kept 3000 oxen. Hercules diverted the River Alpheus through them and cleaned them in a day
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