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14-letter words containing n, e, s, u

  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • intermenstrual — Between menstrual periods.
  • interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
  • interrupt list — [MS-DOS] The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown <[email protected]>. As of late 1992, it had grown to approximately two megabytes in length.
  • intersexuality — Having the physical features of both sexes.
  • interstructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
  • intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
  • intracutaneous — within the skin.
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
  • intussuscepted — Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
  • irresoluteness — The state of being irresolute.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • jacques necker — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.
  • james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
  • japanese quail — any of several small Old World quails of the genus Coturnix, especially C. japonica (Japanese quail) widely used as a laboratory animal.
  • jesuits' resin — an oleoresin obtained from several tropical, chiefly South American trees belonging to the genus Copaifera, of the legume family, used chiefly in varnishes and lacquers, for removing old oil varnish from or for brightening oil paintings, and formerly in medicine in the treatment of certain mucous-membrane conditions.
  • jesus movement — Christian movement that combined a hippy communal way of life with zealous evangelicalism
  • jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
  • jeunesse doree — rich and fashionable young people
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
  • karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • kleene closure — Kleene star
  • knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
  • knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
  • kola peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • kola-peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
  • lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
  • leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • leisure centre — A leisure centre is a large public building containing different facilities for leisure activities, such as a sports hall, a swimming pool, and rooms for meetings.
  • lemon squeezer — tool for extracting juice from lemons
  • lesser omentum — an omentum attached to the stomach, part of the duodenum, and part of the liver and supporting the hepatic vessels.
  • libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • licentiousness — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
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