14-letter words containing c, o, u, r, t, e
- 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
- 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.
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- 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.
- frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
- hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
- heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- heterochromous — of different colors.
- heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- in one's court — in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- 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
- 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.
- juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
- lecture course — a series of lectures on a particular subject
- light-coloured — having a light colour