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

  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
  • indecorousness — The quality of being indecorous.
  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • intercommunion — mutual communion, association, or relations.
  • intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.
  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • internucleonic — internuclear
  • intracutaneous — within the skin.
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
  • juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
  • 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.
  • junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • keep your cool — remain calm
  • kleene closure — Kleene star
  • lecture course — a series of lectures on a particular subject
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • liquor license — a licence that allows the proprietor of a store, bar, etc, to sell alcohol
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • loud and clear — loudly and clearly
  • luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • macromolecular — Of or relating to a macromolecule.
  • macromolecules — Plural form of macromolecule.
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • macrostructure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • mercapto group — the univalent group –SH.
  • mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
  • mercuric oxide — a slightly crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous compound, HgO, occurring as a coarse, orange-red powder (red mercuric oxide) or as a fine, orange-yellow powder (yellow mercuric oxide) used chiefly as a pigment in paints and as an antiseptic in pharmaceuticals.
  • meretriciously — In a meretricious manner.
  • microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
  • microcephalous — Microcephalic.
  • microcomputers — Plural form of microcomputer.
  • microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
  • microinsurance — (insurance) A type of microfinancial service aimed at low-income people and communities, and typified by low premiums and coverage limits.
  • microminiature — built on an extremely small scale, smaller than subminiature, especially of electronic equipment with small solid-state components in the place of vacuum tubes.
  • micronutrients — Plural form of micronutrient.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
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