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14-letter words containing i, c, o, n, l

  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
  • encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
  • endodontically — according to the practice of endodontics
  • endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • epicontinental — Denoting those areas of sea or ocean overlying the continental shelf.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnologically — In an ethnological manner or fashion.
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
  • exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
  • exceptionality — (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclusion zone — law: forbidden entry
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
  • exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
  • 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
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fellow citizen — law: national of same country
  • fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
  • fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
  • flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
  • flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
  • floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
  • floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
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