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14-letter words containing e, p, i, c, u

  • corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
  • councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
  • count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
  • counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
  • counterpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpoint.
  • counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
  • coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
  • 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
  • creeping jesus — an obsequious or servile person
  • cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • 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
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • direct product — a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • draw a picture — represent sth visually
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • equity capital — Finance
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • general public — people in general
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypercalciuria — an abnormally high amount of calcium in the urine.
  • hyperconscious — acutely aware.
  • hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
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