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14-letter words containing u, n, s, t, e

  • file signature — A magic number.
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
  • 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.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • front of house — restaurant
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • 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.
  • fused sentence — a written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gender studies — subject: male and female roles
  • genuine assets — the tangible and intangible assets that make an organization unique, including things such as exclusive customer relationships, etc
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
  • gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
  • hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
  • horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
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