14-letter words containing e, c, o, n, s
- time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
- to close ranks — If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
- to cut corners — If you cut corners, you do something quickly by doing it in a less thorough way than you should.
- to mend fences — If one country tries to mend fences with another, it tries to end a disagreement or quarrel with the other country. You can also say that two countries mend fences.
- topic sentence — a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph or larger section, usually appearing at the beginning.
- trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
- transcutaneous — by way of or through the skin.
- transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
- trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
- trinitrocresol — a yellow, crystalline compound, C 7 H 5 N 3 O 7 , used in high explosives.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- un-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- uncollectables — things that are not collectable
- unconscionable — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- unconsolidated — brought together into a single whole.
- unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- under-consumed — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
- 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.
- unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- van conversion — van2 (def 4).
- varicose veins — swollen blood vessels
- vernix caseosa — the fatty matter, consisting chiefly of dead epidermal cells and sebaceous secretions, covering the skin of a fetus and newborn.
- villa cisneros — former name of Dakhla (def 2).
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- vivisectionist — a person who vivisects.
- voice response — output of information from a computer system in the form of speech rather than displayed text
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- water moccasin — the cottonmouth.
- water scorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
- well-conserved — to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of: Conserve your strength for the race.
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
- winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather