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14-letter words containing e, n, c, l, i, t

  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • export licence — a document issued by a government granting permission to a company to export certain goods or services
  • extracanonical — not included in the canon of Scripture
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fellow citizen — law: national of same country
  • fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
  • french tickler — a condom designed with knobs, projections, etc.
  • friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
  • fuel-efficient — producing power, heat, etc., at a rate considered optimal with regard to the amount of fuel consumed.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • galactic noise — unidentified radio-frequency radiation originating from beyond the solar system.
  • galactic plane — the plane of the galactic equator.
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
  • gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • glycogenolytic — Of, pertaining to, or capable of glycogenolysis, the catabolism of glycogen.
  • golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
  • hell's kitchen — (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly notorious for its slums and high crime rate.
  • helminthologic — of or pertaining to helminthology
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • hyperlactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
  • hypertechnical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
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