14-letter words containing r, e, c, n, t, h
- north american — the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 feet (6187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 sq. mi. (24,242,400 sq. km).
- north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
- north germanic — the subbranch of Germanic that includes the languages of Scandinavia and Iceland.
- northern canoe — a large, heavy canoe used to transport supplies.
- northern cross — six stars in the constellation Cygnus, arranged in the form of a cross.
- northern crown — the constellation Corona Borealis.
- notched collar — a collar forming a notch with the lapels of a garment at the seam where collar and lapels join.
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- null character — Computers. a control character representing nothing, with the value of binary zero, but having special meaning when interpreted as text, as in marking the end of character strings.
- oceanic trench — a long narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust, usually lying above a subduction zone
- omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
- on the knocker — promptly; at once
- on the surface — to all appearances
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
- orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).
- osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
- over the fence — unreasonable, unfair, or unjust
- palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
- paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
- parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
- phonoreception — the physiological perception of sound.
- phosphorescent — exhibiting phosphorescence.
- photoreception — the physiological perception of light.
- photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
- project athena — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- raunch culture — a culture which promotes overtly sexual representations of women, as through the acceptance of pornography, stripping, nudity in advertising, etc, esp when this is encouraged by women
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
- rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
- rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
- richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- richard trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
- ride at anchor — to be anchored
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- scented orchid — a slender orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, with fragrant pink flowers carried in a dense spike and having a three-lobed lip; found in calcareous turf