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14-letter words containing e, i, n

  • albumenization — An alternative form of albuminization.
  • alcmanic verse — a form of verse used in Greek drama and Latin dramatic poetry, composed in dactylic tetrameter.
  • aleutian range — a mountain range extending along the eastern coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Highest peak, Mt. Katmai, 6715 feet (2047 meters).
  • alexander city — a city in E Alabama.
  • alexander viii — (Pietro Ottoboni) 1610–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1689–91.
  • alexipharmakon — an antidote to poison
  • alieni generis — of another kind.
  • alimentiveness — the desire to eat, or the instinct to find, food
  • alive and well — If you say that someone or something is alive and well, you are emphasizing that they continue to survive.
  • alkaline earth — any of the divalent electropositive metals beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, and radium, belonging to group 2A of the periodic table
  • all over again — If you say that something is happening all over again, you are emphasizing that it is happening again, and you are suggesting that it is tiring, boring, or unpleasant.
  • all-conquering — having defeated all opponents over a long period of time
  • allegorization — to make into an allegory; narrate allegorically.
  • alley cropping — a method of planting in which rows of trees are interspersed with rows of crops, improving the soil and providing nutrients, particularly nitrogen, to the crops.
  • alliance party — a non-sectarian Northern Irish political party founded in 1970
  • alpha centauri — a binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Centaurus: magnitude, -0.27: it is the nearest of the stars that are visible to the naked eye, except for the sun
  • alphanumerical — alphanumeric; characterized by having letters and numerals
  • alpine bistort — Also called snakeweed. a European plant, Polygonum bistorta, of the buckwheat family, having a twisted root, which is sometimes used as an astringent.
  • alpine currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes alpinum, of Europe, having greenish-yellow flowers and scarlet fruit.
  • alpine glacier — a glacier that descends from a high valley
  • alumina cement — a quick-setting cement with a large bauxite content.
  • aluminohydride — (inorganic compound) The univalent anion, AlH4-, present in such compounds as lithium aluminium hydride.
  • aluminum oxide — alumina
  • amateurishness — The quality of being amateurish.
  • ambitransitive — (of a verb) Able to be used transitively or intransitively without requiring morphological change.
  • american bison — a member of the cattle tribe, Bison bison, formerly widely distributed over the prairies of W North America but now confined to reserves and parks, with a massive head, shaggy forequarters, and a humped back
  • american chair — Hitchcock chair.
  • american cloth — a glazed or waterproofed cotton cloth
  • american dream — the U.S. ideal according to which equality of opportunity permits any American to aspire to high attainment and material success
  • american eagle — the bald eagle, esp when depicted as the national emblem of the US
  • american holly — See under holly (def 1).
  • american lotus — water chinquapin (def 1).
  • american organ — a reed organ having a suction bellows that draws the air in through the reeds.
  • american party — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
  • american sable — the brown fur of the American marten, Martes americana
  • american samoa — the part of Samoa administered by the US. Capital: Pago Pago. Pop: 54 719 (2013 est). Area: 197 sq km (76 sq miles)
  • american senna — wild senna.
  • american twist — a service in which the ball is spun so as to bounce high and to the left of the receiver.
  • amillennialist — A believer in amillennialism.
  • aminoglycoside — of or relating to amino sugars in glycosidic linkage.
  • aminopeptidase — an enzyme produced by the glands of the small intestine
  • aminophenazone — a crystalline compound used to reduce pain and fever. Formula: C13H17N3O
  • amphibiousness — The state or quality of being amphibious.
  • amphisbaenians — Plural form of amphisbaenian.
  • amphotericin b — an antibiotic compound, C46H73NO20, used in treating certain diseases caused by parasitic fungi, such as systemic candidiasis
  • amrit ceremony — the ceremony of initiation into the Khalsa, at which amrit is drunk by and sprinkled on the heads of candidates for initiation
  • amusement ride — a device at a fair, theme park, etc that people can ride in
  • amylobarbitone — Obsolete spelling of amobarbital.
  • an early night — If you have an early night, you go to bed early. If you have a late night, you go to bed late.
  • anacardiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Anacardiaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees and shrubs many of which have edible drupes. The family includes the cashew, mango, pistachio, and sumach
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