14-letter words containing n, a, s, c
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- jacques necker — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.
- james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
- japanese cedar — Japan cedar.
- japanese larch — a tree, Larix kaempferi, of Japan, having bluish-green leaves and egg-shaped cones.
- jingoistically — (manner) In a jingoistic manner.
- john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- justifications — Plural form of justification.
- justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
- karnatak music — the classical music of South India
- karstification — the process of turning into karst
- kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
- knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
- know backwards — to understand completely
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- lake constance — a lake in W Europe, bounded by S Germany, W Austria, and N Switzerland, through which the Rhine flows. Area: 536 sq km. (207 sq miles)
- lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
- landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- lend-lease act — the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war.
- lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
- licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- llano estacado — a large plateau in the SW United States, in W Texas and SE New Mexico: cattle-grazing region. About 1000–5000 feet (300–1500 meters) above sea level.
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- longcase clock — tall freestanding timepiece
- loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- lorraine cross — cross of Lorraine.
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.