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14-letter words containing n, o, d, u, c, t

  • joint compound — a plasterlike material used to cover joints or the heads of screws in drywall or plasterboard.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • knockout drops — a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
  • mononucleotide — (genetics) A single nucleotide.
  • mounted police — police who patrol on horseback
  • multiconductor — having or involving several electrical conductors
  • nanostructured — Having a nanostructure; a structure designed on the nano scale.
  • nitro compound — any one of a class of usually organic compounds that contain the monovalent group -NO2 (nitro group or radical), linked to a carbon atom. The commonest example is nitrobenzene, C6H5NO2
  • non-conductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
  • non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
  • non-customized — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • non-structured — having and manifesting a clearly defined structure or organization.
  • nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
  • nondisjunction — the failure of chromosomes to separate and segregate into daughter cells at division.
  • nondocumentary — a film or television programme not reflecting real life
  • noneducational — not educational or related to education
  • occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
  • offer document — a document sent by a person or firm making a takeover bid to the shareholders of the target company, giving details of the offer that has been made and, usually, reasons for accepting it
  • old-man cactus — a Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, having a columnar body from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) high with thatchlike, long, white hairs on the top, and red flowers with white centers.
  • ordnance datum — mean sea level calculated from observation taken at Newlyn, Cornwall, and used as the official basis for height calculation on British maps
  • outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
  • overproduction — excessive production; production in excess of need or stipulated amount.
  • photoinduction — the act or process of being photoinduced
  • photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
  • photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
  • picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
  • polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
  • postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • production run — all of the processes necessary to manufacture a certain product etc
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • pseudosentence — a sentence rejected as meaningless because it does not express anything verifiable in experience.
  • puncture wound — injury: perforation
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • reintroduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
  • ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
  • size reduction — Size reduction is a process in which the particle size of a solid is made smaller.
  • staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
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