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14-letter words containing o, n, r, u, s

  • front of house — restaurant
  • 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.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
  • gregariousness — fond of the company of others; sociable.
  • groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
  • groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
  • groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • group of seven — G7.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • 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.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • honours course — a degree course at honours level
  • honours degree — a degree at honours level
  • honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
  • horrendousness — the state or condition of being horrendous or dreadful
  • horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • housing market — property trade
  • humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
  • humoursomeness — the quality of being humoursome
  • hyperconscious — acutely aware.
  • ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • illustrational — of, relating to, or characteristic of illustrations: illustrational art.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
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