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14-letter words containing o, u, a, n, i

  • anticorruption — the opposition to or prevention of corruption
  • antihomosexual — opposed to homosexual people and behaviour
  • antimoniferous — Containing or producing antimony.
  • antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
  • antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
  • antoninus pius — 86–161 ad, emperor of Rome (138–161); adopted son and successor of Hadrian
  • any occupation — Any occupation insurance covers a person if they cannot work under any circumstances, in any occupation, following an accident, injury, or disability.
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • arthroconidium — A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • authorisations — Plural form of authorisation.
  • authoritarians — Plural form of authoritarian.
  • authorizations — Plural form of authorization.
  • autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
  • autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
  • autoconfiscate — (software, jargon)   A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autoionization — the process in which spontaneous decay of excited atoms or molecules results in emission of electrons, rather than photons
  • automatization — to make automatic.
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
  • autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
  • auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
  • auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
  • bamboo curtain — (esp in the 1950s and 1960s) the political and military barrier to communications around the People's Republic of China
  • bamboo turning — turning of spindles and framing members to simulate the jointing of bamboo.
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • basso continuo — continuo.
  • beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • binary counter — (electronics, hardware)   A digital circuit which has a clock input and a number of count outputs which give the number of clock cycles. The output may change either on rising or falling clock edges. The circuit may also have a reset input which sets all outputs to zero when asserted. The counter may be either a synchronous counter or a ripple counter.
  • bioaeronautics — the use of aircraft in the discovery, development, and protection of natural and biological resources
  • bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
  • blue dandelion — chicory (def 1).
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
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