14-letter words containing c, o, u, r, i, n
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
- colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
- communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
- community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- concert tuning — the standard tuning for a guitar: E A D G B E
- concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
- conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- congratulation — the act of congratulating
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constructional — the act or art of constructing.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- constructivism — a movement in abstract art evolved in Russia after World War I, primarily by Naum Gabo, which explored the use of movement and machine-age materials in sculpture and had considerable influence on modern art and architecture
- constructivist — Fine Arts. a nonrepresentational style of art developed by a group of Russian artists principally in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by a severely formal organization of mass, volume, and space, and by the employment of modern industrial materials. Compare suprematism.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contour flying — the technique of flying at a constant altitude of less than 22.8 metres (75 feet) above the ground.
- contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
- contrapuntists — Plural form of contrapuntist.
- contributional — the act of contributing.
- contributorily — In a contributory manner.
- corazon aquino — Corazon C [kawr-uh-zon,, kor-] /ˈkɔr əˌzɒn,, ˈkɒr-/ (Show IPA), 1933–2009, Philippine political leader: president 1986–92.
- cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
- coronary sinus — a large venous channel in the heart wall that receives blood via the coronary veins and empties into the right atrium.
- corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
- corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
- cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.