14-letter words containing c, r, i, n, u
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- country cousin — If you refer to someone as a country cousin, you think that they are unsophisticated because they come from the country.
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
- coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
- courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
- court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
- creatureliness — creatural.
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- creeping jesus — an obsequious or servile person
- crimen injuria — an action that injures the dignity of another person, esp use of racially offensive language
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- cross-question — If you cross-question someone, you ask them a lot of questions about something.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
- cruising range — the distance an aircraft can fly before it needs to refuel
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- cubic zirconia — a synthetic crystalline compound of zirconium oxide, fashioned to resemble diamonds, etc.
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
- curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
- current rating — Current rating is the maximum current that a fuse will carry for an indefinite period without too much deterioration of the fuse element.
- curtain raiser — a short play preceding a main play.
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cutis anserina — goose bumps.
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- direct current — Electricity. an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc.
- direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
- discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance