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14-letter words containing n, i, c, o, s

  • innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
  • inspection pit — a hole in the floor of a garage, etc from which the underside of a vehicle can be examined and serviced
  • instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
  • insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • interactionism — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
  • interactionist — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
  • intercessional — an act or instance of interceding.
  • interiorscaper — One who works in interiorscaping.
  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • intersectional — of or relating to to an intersection, or a place where two or more roads, lines, or elements meet: intersectional traffic flow.
  • intracutaneous — within the skin.
  • introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • introspections — Plural form of introspection.
  • inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
  • inverse cosine — arc cosine.
  • isentropically — in an isentropic manner
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • isoclinic line — an imaginary line connecting points on the earth's surface having equal magnetic dip.
  • isocyanic acid — an unstable acid, CHNO, tautomeric with cyanic acid, known only in the form of its salts.
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • isoionic point — the hydrogen ion concentration at which the concentration of the dipolar ion is at a maximum.
  • isolationistic — Exhibiting isolationism.
  • isometric-lineisometrics, isometric exercise (def 1).
  • isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
  • jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
  • jingoistically — (manner) In a jingoistic manner.
  • john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • 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.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • justifications — Plural form of justification.
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • 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.
  • king's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
  • kissing cousin — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
  • kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
  • knickerbockers — Also, knickerbockers [nik-er-bok-erz] /ˈnɪk ərˌbɒk ərz/ (Show IPA). loose-fitting short trousers gathered in at the knees.
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
  • last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • level crossing — grade crossing.
  • lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
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