Tetradecahedron

There are numerous topologically distinct forms of a tetradecahedron, with many constructible entirely with regular polygon faces.

There is evidence that mammalian epidermal cells are shaped like flattened tetrakaidecahedra, an idea first suggested by Lord Kelvin.

[5] The polyhedron can also be found in soap bubbles and in sintered ceramics, due to its ability to tesselate in 3D space.

[6][7] There are 1,496,225,352 topologically distinct convex tetradecahedra, excluding mirror images, having at least 9 vertices.

[8] (Two polyhedra are "topologically distinct" if they have intrinsically different arrangements of faces and vertices, such that it is impossible to distort one into the other simply by changing the lengths of edges or the angles between edges or faces.)

A tetradecahedron with D 2d -symmetry, existing in the Weaire–Phelan structure