0%

14-letter words containing s, n, a, p, e, d

  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • earned surplus — retained earnings.
  • eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
  • endopeptidases — Plural form of endopeptidase.
  • endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
  • expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
  • flanders poppy — corn poppy.
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
  • impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • indispensables — Plural form of indispensable.
  • inland passage — Inside Passage
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • inside passage — protected sea route along the W coast of North America, from Seattle, Wash., to the N part of the Alas. panhandle: the route uses channels and straits between islands and the mainland: c. 950 mi (1,529 km) long
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • japanese cedar — Japan cedar.
  • landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
  • middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
  • misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
  • modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
  • modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
  • nonparasitized — Not having been parasitized.
  • openhandedness — The characteristic of being openhanded.
  • ordnance corps — a combat support military unit responsible for developing and maintaining weapons and weapon systems
  • painted desert — a region in N central Arizona, E of the Colorado River: many-colored rock surfaces.
  • panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?