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

  • bone structure — the skeletal composition of a human or animal
  • boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
  • buckwheat note — shape note.
  • budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
  • carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
  • cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
  • chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
  • cheque account — an account at a bank or a building society upon which cheques can be drawn
  • chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
  • circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • city of dundee — a council area in E Scotland. Pop: 143 090 (2003 est). Area: 65 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • 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 couplet — a couplet that concludes with an end-stopped line.
  • closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
  • coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • colour palette — (graphics, hardware)   (colour look-up table, CLUT) A device which converts the logical colour numbers stored in each pixel of video memory into physical colours, normally represented as RGB triplets, that can be displayed on the monitor. The palette is simply a block of fast RAM which is addressed by the logical colour and whose output is split into the red, green and blue levels which drive the actual display (e.g. CRT). The number of entries (logical colours) in the palette is the total number of colours which can appear on screen simultaneously. The width of each entry determines the number of colours which the palette can be set to produce. A common example would be a palette of 256 colours (i.e. addressed by eight-bit pixel values) where each colour can be chosen from a total of 16.7 million colours (i.e. eight bits output for each of red, green and blue). Changes to the palette affect the whole screen at once and can be used to produce special effects which would be much slower to produce by updating pixels.
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
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