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14-letter words containing o, n, e

  • anti-bourgeois — opposed to anyone or anything considered bourgeois
  • anti-corporate — of, for, or belonging to a corporation or corporations: a corporate executive; She considers the new federal subsidy just corporate welfare.
  • anti-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • antiaggression — opposing aggressive behaviour
  • antiangiogenic — noting or pertaining to a substance that reduces the growth of new blood vessels needed by tumors to grow and metastasize.
  • anticarcinogen — a chemical that acts against cancer
  • anticensorship — opposed to a policy or programme of censoring
  • anticommercial — opposed to profit-seeking or commercialism
  • anticonvulsive — preventing or alleviating convulsions
  • anticorrosives — Plural form of anticorrosive.
  • antidefamation — (of a group or organization) against defamation
  • antidemocratic — opposed to the principles or practice of democracy
  • antidepression — alleviating or preventing depression
  • antidiarrhoeal — a drug used to prevent or treat diarrhoea
  • antiforeignism — the policy or practice of showing hostility toward foreigners, foreign customs, etc.
  • antigovernment — opposed to government
  • antihemophilic — That counteracts bleeding in hemophiliacs.
  • antihomosexual — opposed to homosexual people and behaviour
  • antilock brake — a brake fitted to some road vehicles that prevents skidding and improves control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • antilymphocyte — (immunology, of an antibody) That acts against lymphocytes.
  • antimetabolite — any drug that acts by disrupting the normal growth of a cell. Sulfonamide drugs are antimetabolites and some antimetabolites are used in cancer treatment
  • antimoniferous — Containing or producing antimony.
  • antineoplastic — acting against tumours
  • antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
  • antiretroviral — inhibiting the process by which a retrovirus replicates
  • antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
  • antitechnology — opposed to technology or the use of technological devices
  • antoine dominoAntoine ("Fats") born 1928, U.S. rhythm-and-blues pianist, singer, and composer.
  • anyone's guess — something difficult to predict
  • apocryphalness — the quality of being apocryphal
  • apolipoprotein — any of a group of glycoproteins that form part of the structure of lipoproteins, some of which have been associated with Alzheimer's disease
  • apparent power — The apparent power of an alternating current circuit is the product of the RMS values of the voltage and the current, expressed as volt-amperes.
  • appendectomies — Plural form of appendectomy.
  • appendicectomy — surgical removal of any appendage, esp the vermiform appendix
  • apple turnover — a pastry containing apple
  • appleton layer — the F region of the ionosphere
  • apportionments — Plural form of apportionment.
  • appreciational — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
  • approximeeting — the practice of a group of people making indefinite plans to meet and then altering those plans regularly via mobile phones according to changing circumstances
  • arabian coffee — a tall, widely cultivated shrub (Coffea arabica) of the madder family, yielding coffee beans that are the world's chief source of commercially produced coffee: native to Africa but now present throughout the tropics, esp. in Brazil
  • archencephalon — the primitive forebrain region of the embryo, anterior to the notochord, that gives rise to the midbrain and forebrain.
  • archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
  • architectonics — the science of architecture
  • arctic monkeys — British rock group (formed 2002): comprising Alex Turner (born 1986; vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (born 1985, guitar), Matt Helders (born 1986, drums, vocals) and Nick O'Malley (born 1985, bass guitar); their albums include Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), and AM (2013)
  • argonne forest — a wooded region in NE France: battles, World War I, 1918; World War II, 1944.
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • arkansas stone — a type of stone used as a whetstone for metal objects, especially knives.
  • armor-piercing — (of bullets, artillery shells, etc.) designed especially for piercing armor.
  • arms inspector — a person who carries out an arms inspection
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
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