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

  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • 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
  • cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
  • creatureliness — creatural.
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • critical value — the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis.
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • 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
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
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