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14-letter words containing c, o, n, l, r, u

  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • 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.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • 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 control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • in circulation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
  • inarticulation — (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
  • insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
  • 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
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • introductorily — By way of introduction.
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • kleene closure — Kleene star
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • liquor license — a licence that allows the proprietor of a store, bar, etc, to sell alcohol
  • loud and clear — loudly and clearly
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
  • micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
  • minicalculator — a very small handheld calculator
  • miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
  • multiconductor — having or involving several electrical conductors
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • nacreous cloud — a rarely seen, luminous, iridescent cloud shaped like a cirrus or altocumulus, approximately 15 miles (24 km) above the earth, and of unknown composition.
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • neurogenically — by neural activity
  • neurologically — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
  • neutral corner — either of the two corners of the ring not used by the boxers between rounds.
  • nitrocellulose — cellulose nitrate.
  • non-altruistic — unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoistic).
  • non-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • non-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
  • non-liturgical — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
  • non-recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
  • non-vernacular — (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
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