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14-letter words containing act

  • practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
  • practice-teach — to work as a practice teacher.
  • precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
  • pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
  • quasi contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
  • quasi-contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
  • rainbow cactus — an erect stiff cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus rigidissimus, of Arizona and Mexico, having a cylindrical body, numerous interlocking spines, and pink flowers.
  • rattail cactus — a small, often cultivated cactus (Aporocactus flagelliformis) with weak, cylindrical, creeping or drooping stems, native to Mexico and Central America
  • reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
  • reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
  • recharacterize — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
  • retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
  • satisfactional — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
  • satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
  • self-actualize — to undergo self-actualization.
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • sharp practice — You can use sharp practice to refer to an action or a way of behaving, especially in business or professional matters, that you think is clever but dishonest.
  • skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • slurry reactor — A slurry reactor is a reactor in which contact is achieved by suspending a solid in a liquid.
  • social-compact — the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members.
  • sodium lactate — a water-soluble, hygroscopic salt, C 3 H 5 NaO 3 , used in solution in medicine to treat metabolic acidosis, usually by injection.
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • spironolactone — a steroid, C 2 4 H 3 2 O 4 S, used in combination with other drugs as a diuretic and antihypertensive.
  • stability pact — an agreement between the member states of the EU which have joined the single currency, the aim of which is to secure the currency's stability by imposing fines on member states whose budget deficits exceed 3 per cent of their gross domestic product
  • subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
  • tachyphylactic — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • three-act play — a dramatic production such as play or film which is divided into three acts or sections
  • toorak tractor — a luxury four-wheel drive or sport utility vehicle
  • tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • trichobacteria — filamentous bacteria
  • ultrapractical — extremely practical
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • unattractively — in an unattractive manner
  • under contract — If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no-one else, during a fixed period of time.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • unit character — a characteristic, usually controlled by a single gene, that is transmitted as a unit in heredity.
  • unknown factor — a factor that is not known or understood
  • unmanufactured — (of a product, commodity, etc) not manufactured
  • unsatisfaction — lack of satisfaction
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