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14-letter words containing a, c, u, r, s

  • cross-cultural — Cross-cultural means involving two or more different cultures.
  • crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • cruising range — the distance an aircraft can fly before it needs to refuel
  • cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
  • crux australis — a small conspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere lying in the Milky Way near Centaurus. The four brightest stars form a cross the longer arm of which points to the south celestial pole
  • crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
  • cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
  • cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
  • currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
  • current assets — Current assets are assets which a company does not use on a continuous basis, such as stocks and debts, but which can be converted into cash within one year.
  • curtain raiser — a short play preceding a main play.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
  • cutis anserina — goose bumps.
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • data structure — an organized form, such as an array list or string, in which connected data items are held in a computer
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • dioscoreaceous — of or relating to the Dioscoreaceae family of monocotyledonous plants that includes the yam (genus Dioscurea)
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
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