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14-letter words containing t, e, n, c, a, r

  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • 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).
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • gamma-carotene — one of the forms of the pigment carotene
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
  • gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
  • gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
  • gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
  • great entrance — the solemn procession in which the unconsecrated Eucharistic elements are carried from the prothesis through the nave of the church and into the bema.
  • greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
  • guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
  • guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
  • 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.
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • heat exchanger — a device for transferring the heat of one substance to another, as from the exhaust gases to the incoming air in a regenerative furnace.
  • heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
  • hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hyperlactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
  • hypertechnical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
  • ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • impact printer — (printer)   The earlier, noisier kind of printer where part of the mechanism comes into contact with the paper. The term would only be only used in contrast to "non-impact printer". Examples include line printer, daisy wheel printer, golf ball printer, dot matrix printer, Braille printer.
  • inaccurateness — The quality of being inaccurate.
  • inappreciative — not appreciative; lacking in appreciation.
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