14-letter words containing u, n, c
- 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.
- intussuscepted — Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- jacques necker — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.
- james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
- john q. public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
- joint compound — a plasterlike material used to cover joints or the heads of screws in drywall or plasterboard.
- juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
- junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
- junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
- junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- justifications — Plural form of justification.
- justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
- 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.
- kiln run brick — any of various bricks of sufficient hardness to be exposed to the weather.
- king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
- kissing cousin — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
- kleene closure — Kleene star
- knockout drops — a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction
- knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
- knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- lake neuchâtel — a lake in W Switzerland: the largest lake wholly in Switzerland. Area: 216 sq km (83 sq miles)
- lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space.
- 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
- learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
- legal currency — money that is officially part of a country's currency
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
- 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.
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia