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

  • curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
  • curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
  • currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
  • current assets — Current assets are assets which a company does not use on a continuous basis, such as stocks and debts, but which can be converted into cash within one year.
  • current source — A current source is a source that maintains the current at a particular value almost independent of the load conditions.
  • 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.
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
  • cutis anserina — goose bumps.
  • 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.
  • cypress spurge — a perennial herb, Euphorbia cyparissias, of Eurasia, having small, greenish-yellow flowers in dense clusters.
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • data structure — an organized form, such as an array list or string, in which connected data items are held in a computer
  • 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
  • deep structure — a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • desert culture — the nomadic hunting, fishing, and gathering preagricultural post-Pleistocene phase in the American West, characterized by an efficient exploitation of varied natural resources that was continued by Amerindian cultures into historic times.
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • dioscoreaceous — of or relating to the Dioscoreaceae family of monocotyledonous plants that includes the yam (genus Dioscurea)
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • director's cut — an edited version of a movie that has not been altered by a studio and over which its director has complete artistic control.
  • disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • 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.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • district court — (in many states) the court of general jurisdiction.
  • district judge — any judge of a federal district court.
  • district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
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