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

  • supernaturally — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
  • supernutrition — excessive nourishment or overeating
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • superscription — the act of superscribing.
  • superseniority — seniority that is granted or held without regard to age or service.
  • supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • supersensitize — to render or make supersensitive.
  • superstruction — the action of superstructing
  • superterranean — situated, or living, on the earth's surface
  • supplementally — supplementary.
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • surgeon's knot — a knot resembling a reef knot, used by surgeons for tying ligatures and the like.
  • suspender belt — garter belt.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • sweet and sour — Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar.
  • sweet chestnut — tree: edible nuts
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • table mountain — a mountain in the Republic of South Africa, near Cape Town. 3550 feet (1080 meters).
  • tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
  • take a punt at — to have an attempt or try at (something)
  • take it out on — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • take the count — to be unable to continue after a count of ten
  • tanen taunggyi — a mountain range in NW Thailand and SE Burma, rising to a height of 7000 feet (2134 meters).
  • tangata whenua — the indigenous Māori people of a particular area of New Zealand or of the country as a whole
  • tax adjustment — a change to the amount of tax owed by a company or individual
  • taxable amount — the portion of your income or profits that is subject to tax
  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • telejournalism — the writing and broadcasting of journalism for television
  • telejournalist — a journalist who writes for or broadcasts on television
  • temper tantrum — tantrum.
  • temperamentful — full of temperament
  • tenement house — a building divided into tenements, or apartments, now specif. one in the slums that is run-down, overcrowded, etc.
  • tenement-house — Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
  • test-tube skin — skin that has been grown in the laboratory from a patch of a person's skin, used for autografting, especially in the treatment of extensive burns.
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • tetanus toxoid — an inactivated form of tetanus toxin obtained from Clostridium tetani, used to produce an active immunity to the toxin.
  • teutonic order — a religious military order founded c1190 in the Holy Land by German crusaders that originally did charitable work among the sick and later fought against the Slavic and Baltic peoples in the eastward expansion of medieval Germany.
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the deerhunter — a film (1978) about the Vietnam War, directed by Michael Cimino and starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
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