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14-letter words containing e, n, d, o, c, y

  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • secondary cell — storage cell.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • secondary road — a road less important than a main road or highway.
  • secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
  • sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • uncontrolledly — in an uncontrolled manner
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
  • wyandotte cave — a cave in S Indiana: one of the most extensive in the U.S., with 23 miles (37 km) of passages.
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