14-letter words containing n, e, s, t, c
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
- give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
- golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
- greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- hell's kitchen — (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly notorious for its slums and high crime rate.
- hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
- heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
- heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- historicalness — The quality of being historical.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
- horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
- hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
- hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
- immaculateness — The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- in one's court — in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game
- in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
- in-consistence — the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
- inaccurateness — The quality of being inaccurate.
- incandescently — (of light) produced by incandescence.
- incapabilities — not capable.
- incarcerations — Plural form of incarceration.
- incautiousness — The quality of being incautious.
- incestuousness — The state or property of being incestuous.
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- incompetencies — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
- incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.
- inconsequentia — Trivia; items or facts of little or no importance.
- inconsequently — In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence.
- inconsistences — Plural form of inconsistence.
- inconsistently — lacking in harmony between the different parts or elements; self-contradictory: an inconsistent story.
- incorporeities — Plural form of incorporeity.