14-letter words containing n, o, s, c, a
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- inconscionable — Obsolete form of unconscionable.
- inconsequentia — Trivia; items or facts of little or no importance.
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- incorporations — Plural form of incorporation.
- incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- 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.
- 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.
- isentropically — in an isentropic manner
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- isocyanic acid — an unstable acid, CHNO, tautomeric with cyanic acid, known only in the form of its salts.
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- isolationistic — Exhibiting isolationism.
- isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- jingoistically — (manner) In a jingoistic manner.
- john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
- 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
- know backwards — to understand completely
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- lake constance — a lake in W Europe, bounded by S Germany, W Austria, and N Switzerland, through which the Rhine flows. Area: 536 sq km. (207 sq miles)
- landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
- 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.
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- llano estacado — a large plateau in the SW United States, in W Texas and SE New Mexico: cattle-grazing region. About 1000–5000 feet (300–1500 meters) above sea level.
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- longcase clock — tall freestanding timepiece