14-letter words containing n, e, s, t, c
- postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
- practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
- pre-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
- preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
- precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
- preconceptions — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
- pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- prince consort — a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign.
- principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- pseudosentence — a sentence rejected as meaningless because it does not express anything verifiable in experience.
- psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
- psychotechnics — the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
- quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
- quinquecostate — having five lines or ribs
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
- race relations — relationships between races
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
- reconsecration — the act of consecrating; dedication to the service and worship of a deity.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- reconstitution — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.