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14-letter words containing r, e, n, u, c

  • incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
  • indecorousness — The quality of being indecorous.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
  • inference rule — (logic)   A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
  • insular celtic — a partly geographical, partly genetic grouping of Celtic languages that consists of those spoken in the British Isles in ancient times and those descended from them.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • interarticular — of or relating to the joints.
  • intercommunion — mutual communion, association, or relations.
  • intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.
  • interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
  • interinsurance — reciprocal insurance.
  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • internucleonic — internuclear
  • interpunctuate — to insert punctuation marks in (a written text)
  • interstructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • intracutaneous — within the skin.
  • intramercurial — within Mercury's orbit
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • jacques necker — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.
  • juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
  • junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • kentucky derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • kleene closure — Kleene star
  • knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
  • knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
  • lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • legal currency — money that is officially part of a country's currency
  • leisure centre — A leisure centre is a large public building containing different facilities for leisure activities, such as a sports hall, a swimming pool, and rooms for meetings.
  • licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
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