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14-letter words containing u, n, i, t

  • superintendent — a person who oversees or directs some work, enterprise, establishment, organization, district, etc.; supervisor.
  • superintensity — the quality of being extremely intense
  • supernutrition — excessive nourishment or overeating
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • superscription — the act of superscribing.
  • superseniority — seniority that is granted or held without regard to age or service.
  • supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • supersensitize — to render or make supersensitive.
  • superstruction — the action of superstructing
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • supra-national — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • sustainability — the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • 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.
  • t distribution — Student's t distribution.
  • table mountain — a mountain in the Republic of South Africa, near Cape Town. 3550 feet (1080 meters).
  • tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
  • tabularization — the act of tabularizing
  • take it out on — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • talaud islands — a group of islands in NE Indonesia. 495 sq. mi. (1281 sq. km).
  • tanen taunggyi — a mountain range in NW Thailand and SE Burma, rising to a height of 7000 feet (2134 meters).
  • 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.
  • telejournalism — the writing and broadcasting of journalism for television
  • telejournalist — a journalist who writes for or broadcasts on television
  • 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.
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
  • test-tube skin — skin that has been grown in the laboratory from a patch of a person's skin, used for autografting, especially in the treatment of extensive burns.
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • tetanus toxoid — an inactivated form of tetanus toxin obtained from Clostridium tetani, used to produce an active immunity to the toxin.
  • 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 final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
  • the humanities — the study of literature, philosophy, and the arts
  • the millennium — the period of a thousand years of Christ's awaited reign upon earth
  • the mujaheddin — (in Afghanistan and Iran) fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas; in Afghanistan in 1992 the mujaheddin overthrew the government but were unable to agree on a constitution due to factional conflict and in 1996 Taliban forces seized power
  • the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • 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
  • think out loud — to speak one's thoughts as they occur
  • thomas aquinas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
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