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

  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • 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
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • 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.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
  • guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • horticulturist — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
  • hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
  • ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
  • ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
  • in one's court — in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game
  • inaccurateness — The quality of being inaccurate.
  • income support — welfare payment to low earners
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
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