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14-letter words containing nt

  • ardent spirits — spirits, such as rum, whisky, etc
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
  • armamentariums — Plural form of armamentarium.
  • arrest warrant — a legal document giving permission to arrest someone
  • 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.
  • assembly plant — An assembly plant is a factory where large items such as cars are put together, usually using parts which have been made in other factories.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • assistantships — Plural form of assistantship.
  • at knife-point — under threat of being stabbed
  • atlantic liner — a large passenger ship that regularly crosses the Atlantic Ocean
  • atlantic ocean — the world's second largest ocean, bounded in the north by the Arctic, in the south by the Antarctic, in the west by North and South America, and in the east by Europe and Africa. Greatest depth: 9220 m (30 246 ft). Area: about 81 585 000 sq km (31 500 000 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
  • autoenrollment — Automatic enrollment (especially of security certificates in a computer system).
  • autotransplant — autograft.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • 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.
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
  • base component — the system of rules in a transformational grammar that specify the deep structure of the language
  • basque country — Theregion comprising three provinces in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay, inhabited by Basques: 2,803 sq mi (7,260 sq km); pop. 2,104,000
  • basso cantante — a bass voice with an upper range that is more developed than that of the basso profundo.
  • basso continuo — continuo.
  • 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.
  • battle lantern — a portable, battery-operated light for emergency use aboard a warship.
  • beauty contest — A beauty contest is a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.
  • beauty pageant — A beauty pageant is the same as a beauty contest.
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • bending moment — the algebraic sum of all the moments to one side of a cross-section of a beam or other structural support
  • benzanthracene — a carcinogenic hydrocarbon
  • 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
  • binary counter — (electronics, hardware)   A digital circuit which has a clock input and a number of count outputs which give the number of clock cycles. The output may change either on rising or falling clock edges. The circuit may also have a reset input which sets all outputs to zero when asserted. The counter may be either a synchronous counter or a ripple counter.
  • 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.
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • blantyre-limbe — a city in S Malawi: largest city in the country; formed in 1956 from the adjoining towns of Blantyre and Limbe. Pop: 647 000 (2005 est)
  • block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
  • block printing — printing from hand engraved or carved blocks of wood or linoleum
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
  • bottle gentian — closed gentian.
  • bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
  • bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
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