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14-letter words containing n, o, c, e, t, r

  • gamma-carotene — one of the forms of the pigment carotene
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
  • gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geochronometry — the determination of the absolute age of earth materials, as by radiometric dating.
  • geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
  • gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
  • gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
  • gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
  • goitrogenicity — the potential to cause goitre
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
  • hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
  • heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
  • heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
  • horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperexcretion — excessive excretion
  • hyperlactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
  • hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
  • iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
  • ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • import licence — a government-issued document that authorizes the importation of goods into its country
  • in one's court — in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game
  • in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
  • incarcerations — Plural form of incarceration.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • income support — welfare payment to low earners
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • incontrollable — uncontrollable.
  • incorporeality — not corporeal or material; insubstantial.
  • incorporeities — Plural form of incorporeity.
  • incrementation — The act or process of incrementing.
  • indirect costs — a business cost that is not directly accountable to a particular function or product; a fixed cost, as a land tax or the like.
  • indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
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