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14-letter words containing m, u, t, o, n, c

  • nitro compound — any one of a class of usually organic compounds that contain the monovalent group -NO2 (nitro group or radical), linked to a carbon atom. The commonest example is nitrobenzene, C6H5NO2
  • nitrobacterium — Any of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium and organic nitrogen compounds to the more soluble nitrite and nitrate.
  • noctambulation — Sleepwalking.
  • non-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • non-customized — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • non-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • noncombustible — not flammable.
  • noncommunicant — a person who is not a communicant.
  • noncommutative — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
  • nonconsumption — the refusal to consume certain foods
  • nonconsumptive — not consumptive of a resource, product, or service
  • nondocumentary — a film or television programme not reflecting real life
  • not up to much — If you say that something is not up to much, you mean that it is of poor quality.
  • obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • offer document — a document sent by a person or firm making a takeover bid to the shareholders of the target company, giving details of the offer that has been made and, usually, reasons for accepting it
  • old-man cactus — a Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, having a columnar body from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) high with thatchlike, long, white hairs on the top, and red flowers with white centers.
  • ordnance datum — mean sea level calculated from observation taken at Newlyn, Cornwall, and used as the official basis for height calculation on British maps
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • pneumoconiotic — a person who suffers from pneumoconiosis
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
  • scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
  • shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • tcl consortium — (body)   A non-profit agency dedicated to promoting Tcl.
  • thermojunction — a point of electrical contact between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears, the magnitude of which depends on the temperature of the contact and the nature of the metals
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • ultracompetent — extremely competent
  • unaccommodated — not accommodated; not adapted.
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
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