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14-letter words containing c, l, o, u, e

  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • hemicelluloses — Plural form of hemicellulose.
  • hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
  • holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
  • homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
  • immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
  • incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • inconclusively — In an inconclusive manner.
  • inconsequently — In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • internucleonic — internuclear
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