14-letter words containing i, n, s, u
- business class — Business class seating on an aeroplane costs less than first class but more than economy class.
- business cycle — the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country
- business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
- business lunch — a lunch at which business is discussed or transacted
- business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
- businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
- cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
- calumniousness — Calumny.
- cancer-causing — having the ability to induce the growth of a malignant tumour
- cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
- capriciousness — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
- caucasian lily — a tall lily plant, Lilium monadelphum, having large, fragrant, drooping golden-yellow flowers.
- censoriousness — The state of being censorious.
- censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
- chauvinist pig — a sexist man
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- chinese houses — a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.
- chinese puzzle — an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
- circumposition — the act of circumposing
- circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- colliquescence — the potential for turning to liquid
- colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
- colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
- communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
- communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
- communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualise.
- conceptualists — Plural form of conceptualist.