14-letter words containing u, n, s, c, e
- james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
- junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
- justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
- king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
- kleene closure — Kleene star
- knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
- knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- leisure centre — A leisure centre is a large public building containing different facilities for leisure activities, such as a sports hall, a swimming pool, and rooms for meetings.
- license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
- licentiousness — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
- liquor license — a licence that allows the proprietor of a store, bar, etc, to sell alcohol
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- meticulousness — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
- microinsurance — (insurance) A type of microfinancial service aimed at low-income people and communities, and typified by low premiums and coverage limits.
- micronutrients — Plural form of micronutrient.
- minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
- misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
- miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- nacreous cloud — a rarely seen, luminous, iridescent cloud shaped like a cirrus or altocumulus, approximately 15 miles (24 km) above the earth, and of unknown composition.
- nanostructured — Having a nanostructure; a structure designed on the nano scale.
- nanostructures — Plural form of nanostructure.
- natural causes — If someone dies of or from natural causes, they die because they are ill or old rather than because of an accident or violence.
- nectareousness — the state or quality of being nectareous
- neglectfulness — The characteristic of being neglectful.
- neolinguistics — a school of linguistics centered in Italy emphasizing the importance of linguistic geography in diachronic studies.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
- neurocomputers — Plural form of neurocomputer.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.