14-letter words containing n, i, c, e, d
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- glycemic index — a system that ranks foods by the speeds at which their carbohydrates are converted into glucose in the body; a measure of the effects of foods on blood-sugar levels.
- 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.
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- 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.
- grid reference — geographical co-ordinates
- group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
- half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
- hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
- hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
- hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
- identical twin — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- identification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- idiosyncracies — Plural form of idiosyncracy.
- idiosyncrasies — a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
- ill-considered — lacking thorough consideration; ill-suited; unwise.
- in defiance of — a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.
- incandescently — (of light) produced by incandescence.
- inclined plane — one of the simple machines, a plane surface inclined to the horizon, or forming with a horizontal plane any angle but a right angle. Compare machine (def 4b).
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- inconvenienced — the quality or state of being inconvenient.
- incredibleness — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecisiveness — characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.