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14-letter words containing s, e, c, r, t

  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
  • turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
  • turn the screw — to increase the pressure
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
  • ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • ultrarealistic — extremely realistic
  • ultrastructure — the structures of a cell that are revealed by electron microscopy.
  • unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
  • understructure — a structure serving as a support; a base or foundation: The building has a strong understructure.
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • unrestrictedly — in an unrestricted manner
  • unsectarianism — the state or quality of being unsectarian
  • user interface — the interface features through which users interact with the hardware and software of computers and other electronic devices. Abbreviation: UI.
  • variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
  • verticillaster — an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged in a seeming whorl, consisting in fact of a pair of opposite axillary, usually sessile, cymes, as in many mints.
  • vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • visceral cleft — branchial cleft.
  • vitrescibility — the ability to be vitrified
  • volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
  • voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
  • waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
  • water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
  • water moccasin — the cottonmouth.
  • water scorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
  • watercolourist — An artist who paints watercolours.
  • weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
  • weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
  • well-respected — a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in): to differ in some respect.
  • wessex culture — an early Bronze Age culture of southern England, 1800–1400 b.c., known only from grave sites, grave goods, and megaliths and considered responsible for erecting the sarsen stones of the third building phase of Stonehenge.
  • western church — the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes with the Anglican Church, or, more broadly, the Christian churches of the West.
  • western thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
  • whorehouse cut — a cut in which a pack is divided into two parts, each of which is divided again before the pack is reassembled.
  • wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
  • windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
  • winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
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