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16-letter words containing u, n, i, t, e

  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
  • succession state — any of a number of usually new states that are established in or expand over the territory formerly ruled by one large state
  • summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
  • summational tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, higher in pitch than either
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • sun-dried tomato — tomato dried in the sun
  • sunrise industry — any of the high-technology industries, such as electronics, that hold promise of future development
  • super-injunction — an instruction or order issued by a court imposing restrictions on reporting, including any reference to the restriction itself
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • supersensitivity — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
  • surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
  • surface-printing — planography.
  • sushi restaurant — a restaurant serving sushi
  • suspending agent — A suspending agent is a liquid in which a solid substance can be held in suspension.
  • suspension point — one of a group of dots, usually three, used in written material to indicate the omission of a word or words
  • sustaining pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
  • sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
  • synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
  • taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
  • tanagra figurine — a small terra-cotta statuette produced from the late 4th to the 3rd century b.c. in Tanagra, Boeotia, and found chiefly in tombs.
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • terminus ad quem — the end to which; aim; goal; final or latest limiting point.
  • texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
  • the annunciation — the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–38)
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
  • the caine mutiny — a novel by Herman Wouk, later made into a film
  • the constitution — the document containing the fundamental laws of the United States: it consists of the seven original articles, adopted in 1789, and twenty-seven amendments
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
  • the south island — the largest island of New Zealand, separated from the North Island by the Cook Strait. Pop: 1 048 200 (2013 est). Area: 153 947 sq km (59 439 sq miles)
  • the subconscious — subconscious mental activity
  • the union school — a historic building located at 516-518 Bethlehem Pike in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Built in 1773, the Union School was one of the earliest public schools in Pennsylvania, and the first that did not discriminate based on social position or religious preference
  • the vienna union — an international conference of socialists who came together in Vienna in 1921 in an attempt to reconstruct a united International by offering an alternative to the right-wing remnant of the Second International and to the Comintern: merged into the Labour and Socialist International in 1923
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • the-constitution — an American 44-gun frigate, famous for its exploits in the War of 1812 and popularly called “Old Ironsides.”.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • three-point turn — When the driver of a vehicle does a three-point turn, he or she turns the vehicle by driving forwards in a curve, then backwards in a curve, and then forwards in a curve.
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