14-letter words that end in ne
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- state medicine — socialized medicine.
- stephen kleene — (person) Professor Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-01-05 - 1994-01-26) /steev'n (kohl) klay'nee/ An American mathematician whose work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison helped lay the foundations for modern computer science. Kleene was best known for founding the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory and for inventing regular expressions. The Kleene star and Ascending Kleene Chain are named after him. Kleene was born in Hartford, Conneticut, USA. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in 1930. From 1930 to 1935, he was a graduate student and research assistant at Princeton University where he received his doctorate in mathematics in 1934. In 1935, he joined UW-Madison mathematics department as an instructor. He became an assistant professor in 1937. From 1939 to 1940, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study where he laid the foundation for recursive function theory, an area that would be his lifelong research interest. In 1941 he returned to Amherst as an associate professor of mathematics. During World War II Kleene was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy. He was an instructor of navigation at the U.S. Naval Reserve's Midshipmen's School in New York, and then a project director at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. In 1946, he returned to Wisconsin, eventually becoming a full professor. He was chair of mathematics, and computer sciences in 1962 and 1963 and dean of the College of Letters and Science from 1969 to 1974. In 1964 he was named the Cyrus C. MacDuffee professor of mathematics. An avid mountain climber, Kleene had a strong interest in nature and the environment and was active in many conservation causes. He led several professional organisations, serving as president of the Association of Symbolic Logic from 1956 to 1958. In 1961, he served as president of the International Union of the History and the Philosophy of Science. Kleene pronounced his last name /klay'nee/. /klee'nee/ and /kleen/ are extremely common mispronunciations. His first name is /steev'n/, not /stef'n/. His son, Ken Kleene <[email protected]>, wrote: "As far as I am aware this pronunciation is incorrect in all known languages. I believe that this novel pronunciation was invented by my father."
- stepping stone — stone: used to cross water
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
- supermasculine — highly masculine
- symmetry plane — reflection plane.
- telephone line — phone connection
- temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface lying between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the Northern Hemisphere or between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere, and characterized by having a climate that is warm in the summer, cold in the winter, and moderate in the spring and fall.
- ten-metre line — a dashed line on a rugby field ten metres away from the halfway line; the ball must be kicked beyond this to begin play
- tenor trombone — one of the two usual forms of the trombone that has a range about two and a half octaves upwards from E
- the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
- the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
- the palaeocene — the Palaeocene epoch or rock series
- the palaeogene — the Palaeogene period or system
- ticket machine — automated ticket dispenser
- tolerance zone — an designated area where prostitutes can work without being arrested
- training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
- transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
- trihalomethane — a type of chemical compound in which three of the hydrogen atoms in a methane molecule have been replaced by halogen atoms, esp by chlorine in drinking water. Trihalomethanes are thought to be carcinogenic
- triiodomethane — iodoform.
- trimethylamine — a colourless, flammable liquid with a strong, fishy odour
- tripelennamine — a white, crystalline, antihistamine, C 16 H 21 N 3 , used for the treatment of allergic disorders.
- triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
- trumpet marine — an obsolete musical instrument having a long, wooden, pyramid-shaped body, characteristically with one string that is touched with the finger to produce harmonics and is bowed between the touching finger and the upper end.
- turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
- turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
- ultra-feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- ultramasculine — extremely masculine
- uniflow engine — a double-acting steam engine exhausting from the middle of each cylinder at each stroke so that the motion of the steam from admission to exhaust is continuous in one direction.
- valve trombone — a trombone equipped with three or four valves in place of a slide.
- venus-figurine — Venus (def 3).
- vernier engine — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
- vinylacetylene — a colorless, volatile liquid, C 4 H 4 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of the synthetic rubber neoprene.
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- wait in a line — When people wait in a line, they stand in a line waiting for something.
- wallace's line — an imaginary line that separates the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions and passes between Bali and Lombok, west of Celebes, and east of the Philippines.
- water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
- when it's done — (jargon) A manufacturer's non-answer to questions about product availability. This answer allows the manufacturer to pretend to communicate with their customers without setting themselves any deadlines or revealing how behind schedule the product really is. It also sounds slightly better than "We don't know".
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
- winter jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum nudiflorum, of China, having winter-blooming, yellow flowers.
- wrecking crane — a crane for lifting and removing wrecked rolling stock.
- yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
- zygomatic bone — a bone on each side of the face below the eye, forming the prominence of the cheek; cheekbone.