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

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
  • 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
  • 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.
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
  • 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.
  • frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
  • fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
  • 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.
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
  • gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
  • gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
  • genealogically — Using genealogical methods.
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geochronologic — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • 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.
  • glycogenolysis — (biochemistry) The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate.
  • 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.
  • goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
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