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14-letter words containing u, n, l, i, s

  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclusion zone — law: forbidden entry
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
  • hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
  • harlequinesque — in the manner of a harlequin.
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • illustrational — of, relating to, or characteristic of illustrations: illustrational art.
  • immaculateness — The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
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