14-letter words containing e, n, c, u, l, t
- nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- nonparticulate — Not particulate.
- nonspectacular — not spectacular
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nontranslucent — Not translucent.
- nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
- nuclear winter — the general devastation of life, along with worldwide darkness and extreme cold, that some scientists believe would result from a global dust cloud screening out sunlight following large-scale nuclear detonations.
- nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
- nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
- null character — Computers. a control character representing nothing, with the value of binary zero, but having special meaning when interpreted as text, as in marking the end of character strings.
- nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
- occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
- occult balance — asymmetrical balance of visual elements in an artistic composition.
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- particularness — the quality of being exceptional or individual
- penalty clause — part of contract specifying a forfeit
- pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
- pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
- percutaneously — through the skin
- perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
- pneumatic pile — a hollow pile, used under water, in which a vacuum is induced so that air and water pressure force it into place.
- polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- quincentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 500 years.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- raunch culture — a culture which promotes overtly sexual representations of women, as through the acceptance of pornography, stripping, nudity in advertising, etc, esp when this is encouraged by women
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
- rossel current — a seasonal Pacific Ocean current, a branch of the South Equatorial Current, flowing W and NW past New Guinea.
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
- scarlet runner — a twining, South American bean plant, Phaseolus coccineus, having clusters of scarlet flowers.
- secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.