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14-letter words containing a, i, l, u, r, o

  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulation — the act of congratulating
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constructional — the act or art of constructing.
  • contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
  • contributional — the act of contributing.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
  • corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
  • corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
  • corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
  • council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • court circular — (in countries having a monarchy) a daily report of the activities, engagements, etc, of the sovereign, published in a national newspaper
  • court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
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