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14-letter words containing e, n, c, p, h, a

  • sistine chapel — the chapel of the pope in the Vatican at Rome, built for Pope Sixtus IV and decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and others.
  • sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
  • spanner wrench — a spanner with a fixed opening that cannot be adjusted to different sizes
  • special branch — The Special Branch is the department of the British police that is concerned with political security and deals with things such as terrorism and visits by foreign leaders.
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • spinthariscope — an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by picking up sparks of light from alpha particles.
  • stand the pace — to keep up with the speed or rate of others
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • telephone call — contact by phone
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
  • the palaeocene — the Palaeocene epoch or rock series
  • therianthropic — being partly bestial and partly human in form.
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • underhand chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop where the axeman stands on the log, which is placed on the ground
  • unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased
  • unsophisticate — not sophisticated
  • wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
  • wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
  • whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
  • whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
  • xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
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