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

  • conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  • consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
  • contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualized — Simple past tense and past participle of contextualize.
  • convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
  • corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
  • counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
  • counterchanged — Exchanged.
  • countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
  • countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
  • counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
  • countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
  • counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
  • counterpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpoint.
  • counterpunched — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpunch.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
  • credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
  • credit squeeze — the control of credit facilities as an instrument of economic policy, associated with restrictions on bank loans and overdrafts, raised interest rates, etc
  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • cut sheet feed — the automatic movement of single sheets of paper through the platen of the printer
  • cut the comedy — to stop joking
  • cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
  • data structure — an organized form, such as an array list or string, in which connected data items are held in a computer
  • deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
  • 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
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
  • 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
  • detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
  • 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
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