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14-letter words containing u, n, e

  • amusement park — An amusement park is the same as a funfair.
  • amusement ride — a device at a fair, theme park, etc that people can ride in
  • anacardiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Anacardiaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees and shrubs many of which have edible drupes. The family includes the cashew, mango, pistachio, and sumach
  • analogue clock — a clock in which the hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds are indicated by hands on a dial
  • analogue watch — a watch in which the hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds are indicated by hands on a dial
  • anchorage dues — money paid so that a ship can anchor somewhere
  • androcephalous — having a human head
  • androdioecious — (of a plant species) having hermaphrodite and male flowers on separate plants
  • andy tanenbaum — Andrew Tanenbaum
  • angustifoliate — having thin or narrow leaves
  • antediluvially — in antediluvian times, in times before the Flood
  • anti-bourgeois — opposed to anyone or anything considered bourgeois
  • anti-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • anti-incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
  • anti-neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
  • anticonvulsive — preventing or alleviating convulsions
  • antifilibuster — a person or method in opposition to filibustering
  • antihomosexual — opposed to homosexual people and behaviour
  • antimoniferous — Containing or producing antimony.
  • antiquatedness — The state or quality of being antiquated.
  • antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
  • antirepublican — opposed to the principles or practice of republicanism
  • antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
  • antitubercular — acting against tuberculosis
  • antiulcerative — An antiulcerative is an agent that prevents the formation or promotes the healing of ulcers.
  • antiuniversity — a group or institution which disregards the established traditions or practices of university education
  • anyone's guess — something difficult to predict
  • apple turnover — a pastry containing apple
  • aquatic centre — a complex with facilities for water sports, including swimming pools
  • arabic numeral — one of the symbols 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (opposed to Roman numerals)
  • arctic current — a cold ocean current flowing S along the Labrador coast through Davis Strait to the Grand Banks where it divides, the E branch joining the North Atlantic Current and the W branch flowing into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
  • armamentariums — Plural form of armamentarium.
  • articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • asparagus bean — a trailing, long-stemmed Asian vine, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, of the legume family, having yellow or violet flowers and very long pods.
  • asparagus fern — a fernlike species of asparagus, A. plumosus, native to southern Africa
  • asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
  • assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
  • assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
  • at full length — stretched out; completely extended
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • augean stables — the stables, not cleaned for 30 years, where King Augeas kept 3000 oxen. Hercules diverted the River Alpheus through them and cleaned them in a day
  • auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
  • augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
  • auld lang syne — Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song about friendship that is traditionally sung as clocks strike midnight on New Year's Eve.
  • auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
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