14-letter words containing c, o, r, e, u
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
- direct product — a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.
- director's cut — an edited version of a movie that has not been altered by a studio and over which its director has complete artistic control.
- discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
- discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
- diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
- do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- double deckers — (jargon) Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
- dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
- electroculture — the practice of using electricity in agriculture or horticulture in order to stimulate plant growth
- electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
- electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
- electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- 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.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- 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.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- 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
- fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
- founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.