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14-letter words containing u, n, c, i

  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • encaustic tile — a tile produced using the encaustic technique
  • enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • equity account — An equity account is an account recording ownership interests in a company.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclusion zone — law: forbidden entry
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
  • excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
  • fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • 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.
  • fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
  • fuel-efficient — producing power, heat, etc., at a rate considered optimal with regard to the amount of fuel consumed.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
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