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14-letter words containing n, e, c, s, a

  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • street cleaner — a sanitation worker who cleans streets or sidewalks.
  • subarborescent — below or under trees
  • subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • sun animalcule — a heliozoan.
  • superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
  • supermasculine — highly masculine
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • swanscombe man — a primitive human, Homo sapiens steinheimensis, of the middle Pleistocene Epoch, known from a fossil skull fragment found at Swanscombe, England.
  • synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • systematicness — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
  • tax concession — tax reduction
  • teach a lesson — give a class, give instruction
  • teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
  • technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
  • telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
  • the soo canals — the two ship canals linking Lakes Superior and Huron. There is a canal on the Canadian and on the US side of the rapids of the St Mary's River
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • to close ranks — If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • train sickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.
  • transcendental — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
  • transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
  • transcutaneous — by way of or through the skin.
  • transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
  • transit circle — meridian circle.
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transparencies — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
  • transplacental — across or passing through the placenta.
  • transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
  • transrectifier — a device, usually a vacuum tube, that provides transrectification.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
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