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

  • aquaculturally — In an aquacultural manner; with regard to, or by means of, aquaculture.
  • aquatic centre — a complex with facilities for water sports, including swimming pools
  • arabic numeral — one of the symbols 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (opposed to Roman numerals)
  • arboricultural — Of or pertaining to the care, planting and maintenance of trees.
  • arborsculpture — The art and craft technique of growing and shaping tree trunks.
  • archebacterium — (biology) alternative spelling of archaebacterium.
  • archipterygium — (anatomy) A primitive fin, like that of Ceratodus.
  • arctic current — a cold ocean current flowing S along the Labrador coast through Davis Strait to the Grand Banks where it divides, the E branch joining the North Atlantic Current and the W branch flowing into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
  • area pellucida — the translucent central area of the blastoderm of birds and reptiles within which the embryo develops.
  • area vasculosa — that part of the area opaca in which the blood cells and vessels are formed.
  • arthroconidium — A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
  • articulateness — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • artifactitious — of, relating to, or of the nature of an artifact, or a man-made object that carries cultural significance.
  • assault course — An assault course is an area of land covered with obstacles such as walls which people, especially soldiers, use to improve their skills and strength.
  • asynchronously — In an asynchronous manner.
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
  • auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
  • austro-asiatic — a hypothetical phylum or superfamily of languages consisting of Mon-Khmer and certain other languages of India and South-East Asia. Links with Malayo-Polynesian have also been suggested
  • author catalog — a catalog whose entries are listed by author, editor, compiler, translator, or other party considered to have responsibility for the creation or assembly of the work specified.
  • autobiographic — marked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history; of or in the manner of an autobiography: autobiographical material; an autobiographical novel.
  • autocollimator — an instrument combining the functions of a telescope and collimator, for detecting and measuring very small deviations in a beam of light.
  • autocoprophagy — the consumption of one's own faeces
  • autocorrelator — (electronics) A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autocratically — In an autocratic manner.
  • autodestructed — Simple past tense and past participle of autodestruct.
  • automatic door — a self-opening door
  • autoreactivity — (immunology) The condition of being autoreactive.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • average clause — a clause in an insurance policy that distributes the insurance among several items, usually in proportion to their value
  • azimuth circle — a device for measuring azimuths, consisting of a graduated ring equipped with a sighting vane on each side, which fits concentrically over a compass.
  • baccalaureates — Plural form of baccalaureate.
  • back o' bourke — in a remote or backward place
  • back of bourke — a remote area or place.
  • back to nature — If you want to get back to nature, you want to return to a simpler way of living.
  • bamboo curtain — (esp in the 1950s and 1960s) the political and military barrier to communications around the People's Republic of China
  • barbecue grill — a grill used in barbecuing
  • barbecue sauce — a highly seasoned sauce used in barbecuing
  • barbour jacket — a hard-wearing waterproof waxed jacket
  • barrack square — an open area near a military barracks where drills are performed
  • bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • basque country — Theregion comprising three provinces in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay, inhabited by Basques: 2,803 sq mi (7,260 sq km); pop. 2,104,000
  • battery backup — A battery backup is a system in some power supplies that switches between a main power source and a battery.
  • battle cruiser — A battle cruiser is a large fast warship that is lighter than a battleship and moves more easily.
  • beach barbecue — a barbecue on a beach
  • beach umbrella — a large umbrella used as a sunshade on the beach
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