14-letter words containing n, e, o, c, r, a
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- subarborescent — below or under trees
- subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
- sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
- taínaron, cape — Matapan
- tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
- ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
- teratogenicity — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
- terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
- the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- therianthropic — being partly bestial and partly human in form.
- 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.
- thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
- throw a wrench — If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
- 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.
- tolerance zone — an designated area where prostitutes can work without being arrested
- tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
- 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
- transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
- transcutaneous — by way of or through the skin.
- transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- unappreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- unconcentrated — applied with all one's attention, energy, etc.: their concentrated efforts to win the election.
- unconfederated — not allied to a confederation or joined in confederacy
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- uncontemporary — outmoded
- uncontradicted — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- uncontrollable — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
- uncorroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- under contract — If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no-one else, during a fixed period of time.
- undereducation — to educate too little or poorly.
- underhand chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop where the axeman stands on the log, which is placed on the ground
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
- unicorn chaser — originally a picture of a unicorn posted on a blog site shortly after an offensive or disturbing picture has been posted, as a kind of antidote to the previous post. Now used of a comforting or innocent image, video clip, or topic viewed or contemplated following a previous, disturbing image, video, etc.
- unidirectional — operating or moving in one direction only; not changing direction: a unidirectional flow.
- unincorporated — not chartered as a corporation; lacking the powers and immunities of a corporate enterprise: an unincorporated business.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor