14-letter words containing ent
- 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
- 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.
- bending moment — the algebraic sum of all the moments to one side of a cross-section of a beam or other structural support
- betterment tax — a tax on an increase in the value of property effected by improvement
- big government — a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power
- biocontainment — the confinement, as by sealed-off chambers, of materials that are harmful or potentially harmful to life.
- bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
- bottle gentian — closed gentian.
- bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
- bowel movement — the discharge of faeces; defecation
- boxed comments — (programming) Comments that occupy several lines by themselves; so called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style similar to this: /************************************************* * * This is a boxed comment in C style * *************************************************/ Common variants of this style omit the asterisks in column 2 or add a matching row of asterisks closing the right side of the box. The sparest variant omits all but the comment delimiters themselves; the "box" is implied. Opposite of winged comments.
- brazil current — a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean flowing SE along the E coast of Brazil.
- bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
- cancer patient — a person who is receiving medical treatment for a malignant growth or tumour
- cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
- carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
- case statement — switch statement
- casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
- catchment area — The catchment area of a school, hospital, or other service is the area that it serves.
- centenarianism — the situation or condition of being a centenarian
- center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
- center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
- central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
- central moment — a moment about the center of a distribution, usually the mean.
- central office — (communications) The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
- central sulcus — a deep cleft in each hemisphere of the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe
- central valley — the chief wine-producing region of California, centered in San Joaquin County.
- centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
- centralization — the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
- centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
- centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
- centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
- chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
- christocentric — having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.
- circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre