14-letter words containing r, e, c, a, n, y
- irreconcilably — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
- isentropically — in an isentropic manner
- knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
- ladder company — hook-and-ladder company.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
- lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- legal currency — money that is officially part of a country's currency
- livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- manometrically — Using a manometer.
- market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
- masonry cement — a mix typically of Portland cement, hydrated lime, and other materials, used to improve the water retention and workability of the cement in masonry work.
- mechanotherapy — curative treatment by mechanical means.
- mental cruelty — behaviour that causes distress to another person but that does not involve physical assault
- metronomically — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
- microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monocarpellary — consisting of a single carpel.
- narcosynthesis — a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics.
- native country — the country someone is born in or native to
- neurogenically — by neural activity
- neurologically — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- non-creativity — the state or quality of being creative.
- noncrystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- nondocumentary — a film or television programme not reflecting real life
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- normoglycaemia — the condition of having a normal blood sugar level
- normoglycaemic — Alt form normoglycemic.
- nuclear energy — energy released by reactions within atomic nuclei, as in nuclear fission or fusion.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- occupancy rate — The occupancy rate at a hotel is the number of available rooms that are occupied over a period of time.
- of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
- omega-c baryon — a neutral baryon having a mass 5292 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 6.4 X 10 -14 seconds.
- overanalytical — too analytical
- pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
- penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
- percutaneously — through the skin
- perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
- post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy