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14-letter words containing d, e, a, u

  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
  • cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • capparidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Capparidaceae (or (Capparaceae), a family of plants, mostly shrubs including the caper, of warm tropical regions
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • cellular radio — radio communication based on a network of transmitters each serving a small area known as a cell: used in personal communications systems in which the mobile receiver switches frequencies automatically as it passes from one cell to another
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
  • chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • class schedule — In a school or college, a class schedule is a list that shows the times in the week at which particular subjects are taught. You can also refer to the range of subjects that a student learns or the classes that a teacher teaches as their class schedule.
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
  • computer-aided — done or improved by computer
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
  • countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
  • 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.
  • coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
  • cream-coloured — cream in colour
  • credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
  • 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.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
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