15-letter words containing n, e, c, s
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
- gender-specific — for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females: Left-handedness is not gender-specific.
- gene sequencing — the determination of the order in which a particular gene's nucleotides are arranged
- general science — basic science taught as a school subject
- geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
- get one's cards — to be told to leave one's employment
- giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
- glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
- gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
- gluconeogenesis — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
- glyconeogenesis — gluconeogenesis.
- gnome computers — (company) A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
- go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- grammaticalness — (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
- grand staircase — a large and impressive staircase
- great recession — the protracted worldwide economic recession following the financial crisis of 2007–08
- gross indecency — sexual offence
- group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- harmonic series — a series in which the reciprocals of the terms form an arithmetic progression.
- have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- heart's content — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
- hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
- heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
- hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
- hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
- hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
- heterochthonous — not indigenous; foreign (opposed to autochthonous): heterochthonous flora and fauna.
- hexylresorcinol — white or yellowish-white, needle-shaped crystals, C 12 H 18 O 2 , used chiefly as an antiseptic and for the expulsion of intestinal worms.
- hobson's choice — the choice of taking either that which is offered or nothing; the absence of a real alternative.
- holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
- homo economicus — a theoretical human being who rationally calculates the costs and benefits of every action before making a decision, used as the basis for a number of economic theories and models
- hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
- hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
- horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
- horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.