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

  • cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
  • choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
  • chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
  • chronosequence — (geology) A sequence of different soils formed at different times.
  • circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
  • circumposition — the act of circumposing
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • clifford trust — a type of living trust set up for at least a 10-year period, during which the income goes to a beneficiary and after which the principal reverts to the grantor.
  • close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
  • close quarters — a narrow cramped space or position
  • closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
  • closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
  • clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • colourlessness — The state or quality of being colourless.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commissurotomy — the incision of a band of commissures, especially of mitral fibers, to correct mitral stenosis.
  • common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
  • communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
  • compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • compute server — (computer, parallel)   A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
  • computer virus — virus
  • concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
  • conductor loss — Conductor loss is loss occurring in a conductor due to the flow of current.
  • configurations — Plural form of configuration.
  • connaturalness — connaturality
  • conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A 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.
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
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