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14-letter words containing u, n, c, r, t

  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • indian country — (especially during the U.S. westward migration) any region where one was likely to encounter Indians, especially hostile Indians.
  • indian currant — a shrub, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus, of the honeysuckle family, found from South Dakota and Texas to the eastern coast of the U.S., having hairy leaves, inconspicuous white flowers, and reddish-purple fruit.
  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
  • instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
  • 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.
  • insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • interarticular — of or relating to the joints.
  • intercommunion — mutual communion, association, or relations.
  • intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.
  • interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
  • interinsurance — reciprocal insurance.
  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • internucleonic — internuclear
  • interpunctuate — to insert punctuation marks in (a written text)
  • interstructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • intraarticular — (anatomy) Situated within a joint.
  • intracutaneous — within the skin.
  • intramercurial — within Mercury's orbit
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • introductorily — By way of introduction.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
  • karnatak music — the classical music of South India
  • kentucky derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • knockout drops — a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction
  • knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
  • knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
  • leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
  • 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).
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • macro-mutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
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