14-letter words containing ne
- business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
- business class — Business class seating on an aeroplane costs less than first class but more than economy class.
- business cycle — the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country
- business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
- business lunch — a lunch at which business is discussed or transacted
- business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
- businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
- bust one's ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
- butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
- byzantine rite — the rite of the Greek Orthodox Church and of certain Uniat churches, observed in the Greek language.
- cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
- cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
- calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
- calculatedness — the state of being calculated
- caloric energy — energy measured in calories
- calumniousness — Calumny.
- canes venatici — a small faint constellation in the N hemisphere near Ursa Major that contains the globular cluster M3 and the spiral whirlpool galaxy M51
- canton flannel — cotton flannel
- capriciousness — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carcinogenesis — the development of cancerous cells from normal ones
- carcinogenetic — Of or pertaining to carcinogenesis; forming cancer cells.
- carelessnesses — Plural form of carelessness.
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
- cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
- catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
- catty-cornered — cater-cornered
- cayenne pepper — Cayenne pepper or cayenne is a red powder with a hot taste which is made from dried peppers and is used to flavour food.
- celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
- cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
- censoriousness — The state of being censorious.
- champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
- change machine — a machine that provides smaller denomination coins or notes in exchange for larger ones
- changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
- changelessness — The state or quality of being changeless.
- channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- channel tunnel — the Anglo-French railway tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel, between Folkestone and Coquelles, near Calais; opened in 1994
- channelization — the action or process of channelizing
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- chemical toner — toner (def 4).
- chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
- cheyenne river — a river flowing NE from E Wyoming to the Missouri River in South Dakota. About 500 miles (800 km) long.
- chief engineer — the senior engineer on board a ship
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- chimney corner — a recess that contains a seat in a large open fireplace; inglenook
- chinese banana — a large southern Chinese plant, Musa acuminata, of the banana family, having blue-green leaves, yellowish-white flowers with reddish-brown bracts, and fragrant, edible, curved fruit from 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 cm) long, often borne in clusters of 200.