14-letter words containing s, e, t, c, r, u
- endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
- equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
- escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
- heterochromous — of different colors.
- heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
- hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
- ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
- in one's court — in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game
- inaccurateness — The quality of being inaccurate.
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- 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.
- interinsurance — reciprocal insurance.
- interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
- interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- interstructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- intracutaneous — within the skin.
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
- knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
- lecture course — a series of lectures on a particular subject
- 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.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- macrostructure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.