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14-letter words containing u, n, c

  • superefficient — extremely efficient
  • superexcellent — extremely excellent; better than excellent
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
  • superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
  • supermasculine — highly masculine
  • superscription — the act of superscribing.
  • superstruction — the action of superstructing
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • suspiciousness — tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
  • sweet chestnut — tree: edible nuts
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • take the count — to be unable to continue after a count of ten
  • tax accountant — an accountant who specializes in taxation and in the preparation of company and individual accounts
  • tax consultant — a person who advises other people and companies on tax affairs, esp on legal ways of paying less tax
  • tcl consortium — (body)   A non-profit agency dedicated to promoting Tcl.
  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • teutonic order — a religious military order founded c1190 in the Holy Land by German crusaders that originally did charitable work among the sick and later fought against the Slavic and Baltic peoples in the eastward expansion of medieval Germany.
  • the human race — mankind
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • thermojunction — a point of electrical contact between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears, the magnitude of which depends on the temperature of the contact and the nature of the metals
  • ticket counter — the place where you buy a ticket for public transport, the theatre, cinema, etc
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • to cut and run — If someone cuts and runs in a difficult situation, they try to escape from it quickly and gain an advantage for themselves, rather than deal with the situation in a responsible way.
  • to cut corners — If you cut corners, you do something quickly by doing it in a less thorough way than you should.
  • toronto euclid — (language)   The standard dialect of Euclid, as compared to Ottawa Euclid.
  • tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • tragacanth gum — Tragacanth gum is a gum obtained from the tragacanth plant, used as a suspending agent.
  • transcaucasian — a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic) area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
  • transcutaneous — by way of or through the skin.
  • transductional — of or relating to transduction
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
  • truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
  • trustification — the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts: the trustification of the oil business.
  • truth-function — a statement so constructed from other statements that its truth-value depends on the truth-values of the other statements rather than on their meanings.
  • try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turn indicator — a flight instrument that indicates the angular rate of turn of an aircraft about its vertical axis.
  • turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
  • turn the screw — to increase the pressure
  • turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
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