14-letter words containing c, o, u, n, t, e
- contextualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contextualize.
- contiguousness — The state or quality of being contiguous.
- control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
- contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
- convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
- coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
- coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
- corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- cottony jujube — an Indian evergreen shrub or small tree, Ziziphus mauritiana, of the buckthorn family, having leaves that are rusty-hairy on the underside and small, round, red, acid fruit.
- council estate — a housing development built by a local council
- council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
- council tenant — a tenant who rents a council house or council flat
- count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
- count the cost — If someone counts the cost of something that has happened or will happen, they consider how the consequences of that action or event affect them.
- countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
- counter jumper — a sales assistant in a shop
- counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counter-boulle — contre-partie.
- counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
- counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
- counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.
- counterassault — a counterattack
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- counterculture — Counterculture is a set of values, ideas, and ways of behaving that are completely different from those of the rest of society.
- countercurrent — a current flowing in an opposite direction to another current
- countereconomy — an economy operating simultaneously with or in opposition to the established economic system.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- counterpersons — Plural form of counterperson.
- counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
- counterpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpoint.