Managed small caps in a number of teeth: excellent (14)
I believe the answer is:
transcendental
'excellent' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'managed small caps in a number of teeth' is the wordplay.
'managed' becomes 'ran' (both can mean organised or was in charge of).
'small caps' becomes 'sc' (this could be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'a number' becomes 'ten' (ten is a number).
'of teeth' becomes 'dental' (I've seen this before).
'ran'+'sc'='ransc'
'ransc' put within 'ten' is 'transcen'.
'transcen'+'dental'='TRANSCENDENTAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for transcendental that I've seen before include "Relating to the spiritual realm" , "Supereminent" , "Pi is" , "like a number of mathematicians?" , "'being in the spiritual realms' maybe" .)