14-letter words containing u, s, e, n, t
- queensland nut — macadamia.
- questionmaster — quizmaster.
- questionnaires — Plural form of questionnaire.
- quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
- quinquecostate — having five lines or ribs
- quintessential — of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- re-measurement — the act of measuring.
- reconstitution — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
- relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
- requisitionist — a person who requisitions; a person who makes a requisition
- respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- restaurant car — dining car.
- restauranteurs — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- resultant tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, either lower in pitch than either (differential tone) or higher (summational tone)
- resultlessness — the state or quality of being resultless
- revenue stream — method of income
- revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
- rossel current — a seasonal Pacific Ocean current, a branch of the South Equatorial Current, flowing W and NW past New Guinea.
- roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
- run its course — (of something) to complete its development or action
- russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- sale or return — an arrangement by which a retailer pays only for goods sold, returning those that are unsold to the wholesaler or manufacturer
- sanctus turret — a bell cote holding a Sanctus bell.
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scarlet runner — a twining, South American bean plant, Phaseolus coccineus, having clusters of scarlet flowers.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
- screen capture — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.