14-letter words containing n, e, u, t
- transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
- transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
- transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
- transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- transsexuality — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
- trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
- tried and true — tested and found to be reliable or workable.
- tried-and-true — tested and found to be reliable or workable.
- trophoneurosis — a disorder caused by defective functioning of the trophic nerves
- truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
- trudgen stroke — a swimming stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used
- trumpet marine — an obsolete musical instrument having a long, wooden, pyramid-shaped body, characteristically with one string that is touched with the finger to produce harmonics and is bowed between the touching finger and the upper end.
- trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
- try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
- tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- tungsten steel — an alloy steel containing tungsten.
- tunnel disease — aeroembolism (def 2).
- tunnel of love — a ride in an amusement park consisting of a dark, narrow, covered passageway through which small cars or boats are mechanically conveyed, usually frequented by couples.
- tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography) A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
- turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
- turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.
- turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
- turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- turn on a dime — change direction quickly
- turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
- turn the screw — to increase the pressure
- turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- turning circle — the smallest circle in which a vehicle can turn
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- turnkey system — Computers. a computer system purchased from hardware and software vendors, customized and put in working order by a firm that then sells the completed system to the client that ordered it.
- ubiquitousness — existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.
- ultimogeniture — postremogeniture.
- ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
- ultra-feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultraefficient — extremely or exceptionally efficient
- ultraenergetic — (of particles) producing exceptional levels of energy
- ultramasculine — extremely masculine
- ultraminiature — subminiature.
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- ultroneousness — spontaneity; free will
- umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas