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14-letter words containing n, u, t, r, i, o

  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • 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.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • housing market — property trade
  • hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
  • ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • illustrational — of, relating to, or characteristic of illustrations: illustrational art.
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • in circulation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
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