14-letter words containing en
- arc-jet engine — a type of rocket engine using propellant gas heated by an electric arc.
- archencephalon — the primitive forebrain region of the embryo, anterior to the notochord, that gives rise to the midbrain and forebrain.
- archgenethliac — the person most proficient at casting horoscopes
- arctic current — a cold ocean current flowing S along the Labrador coast through Davis Strait to the Grand Banks where it divides, the E branch joining the North Atlantic Current and the W branch flowing into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
- ardent spirits — spirits, such as rum, whisky, etc
- argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
- armamentariums — Plural form of armamentarium.
- arriere-pensee — an unrevealed thought or intention
- arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
- arthrocentesis — The clinical procedure of using a syringe to collect synovial fluid from a joint capsule, used in the diagnosis of gout, arthritis, and synovial infections.
- articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- ascending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the north (opposed to descending node).
- assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
- associableness — The state or quality of being associable.
- asthenospermia — (medicine) Loss or reduction in the strength or energy of sperm cells, hence infertility. Not always infertile many are subfertile.
- asthenospermic — (medicine) Characterised by or pertaining to asthenospermia, hence infertile.
- asthenospheric — relating to the asthenosphere
- at a loose end — If you are at a loose end, you are bored because you do not have anything to do and cannot think of anything that you want to do. In American English, you usually say that you are at loose ends.
- at full length — stretched out; completely extended
- attainableness — The state or quality of being attainable.
- attention line — a line of text after the address on a piece of correspondence, directing it to a particular person or department.
- attention span — the period of time during which someone's attention is held by something in particular
- attractiveness — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
- audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- authenticating — to establish as genuine.
- authentication — to establish as genuine.
- autoenrollment — Automatic enrollment (especially of security certificates in a computer system).
- bank statement — A bank statement is a printed document showing all the money paid into and taken out of a bank account. Bank statements are usually sent by a bank to a customer at regular intervals.
- base component — the system of rules in a transformational grammar that specify the deep structure of the language
- batement light — a compartment of a window with tracery, the bottom of which is formed by the arched head of a compartment or compartments below.
- batten disease — a rare hereditary disease in which lipids accumulate in the nervous system, leading to mental deterioration, loss of mobility, and blindness that start in early childhood
- battered-women — the array of physical and psychological injuries exhibited by women (battered women or battered wives) who have been beaten repeatedly or otherwise abused by their partners or spouses.
- be in evidence — If someone or something is in evidence, they are present and can be clearly seen.
- beaten biscuit — a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.
- belgian endive — endive (def 2).
- belgian-endive — endive (def 2).
- bellingshausen — Fabian Gottlieb von [fey-bee-uh n-got-leeb von] /ˈfeɪ bi ənˈgɒt lib vɒn/ (Show IPA), (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshauzen) 1778–1852, Russian naval officer and explorer.
- bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
- benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
- bending moment — the algebraic sum of all the moments to one side of a cross-section of a beam or other structural support
- beneficialness — the state of being beneficial
- bengal catechu — catechu.
- benign neglect — If you describe someone's approach to a problem as one of benign neglect, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing nothing and hoping that the problem will solve itself.
- benzanthracene — a carcinogenic hydrocarbon
- benzene series — a series of aromatic hydrocarbons derived from benzene by replacing one or more of the hydrogen atoms with one or more methyl groups. The first three members are benzene, toluene, and xylene.
- benzodiazepine — any of a group of chemical compounds that are used as minor tranquillizers, such as diazepam (Valium) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
- benzosulfimide — saccharin.
- benzyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 9 H 10 O 2 , having a flowerlike odor: used chiefly for flavoring tobacco and in soaps and cosmetics.
- benzyl alcohol — a colorless, faintly aromatic, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 8 O, used chiefly as a solvent in the manufacture of perfumes and flavorings, and as an intermediate in the synthesis of benzyl esters and ethers.