14-letter words containing o, n, s, c
- 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
- keynote speech — opening address at a conference
- king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
- king's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
- kissing cousin — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
- kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
- kleene closure — Kleene star
- knickerbockers — Also, knickerbockers [nik-er-bok-erz] /ˈnɪk ərˌbɒk ərz/ (Show IPA). loose-fitting short trousers gathered in at the knees.
- knockout drops — a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction
- know backwards — to understand completely
- know the score — understand the situation
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- 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.
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
- licentiousness — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
- 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.
- liquor license — a licence that allows the proprietor of a store, bar, etc, to sell alcohol
- 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.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- longcase clock — tall freestanding timepiece
- loose sentence — a sentence that does not end with the completion of its main clause, but continues with one or more subordinate clauses or other modifiers.
- loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- lorraine cross — cross of Lorraine.
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- macintosh iicx — (computer) (Mac IIcx) A version of Apple's Macintosh II personal computer, introduced in 1989, with a Motorola 68030 processor running at 16 MHz and up to 128 MB of RAM (120 ns, 30-pin DRAM chips). The IIcx requires System 6.0.3 or later and requires "Mode 32" or "32-bit Enabler" to use more than 8MB of RAM. It was discontinued 1991, and in 1996 is still considered one of the best-designed Macs ever.
- macro-organism — an organism that can be seen with the naked eye.
- macroeconomics — the branch of economics dealing with the broad and general aspects of an economy, as the relationship between the income and investments of a country as a whole.