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14-letter words containing e, u, r, o

  • cross-question — If you cross-question someone, you ask them a lot of questions about something.
  • crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
  • cruft together — (jargon)   To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
  • cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • cryptocurrency — a decentralized digital medium of exchange which is created, regulated, and exchanged using cryptography and (usually) open source software
  • cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
  • cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
  • 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
  • current source — A current source is a source that maintains the current at a particular value almost independent of the load conditions.
  • 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
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
  • data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • debenture bond — a corporate bond unsecured by any mortgage, dependent on the credit of the issuer.
  • debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
  • 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
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
  • deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • diaz rodriguez — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1927, Venezuelan author.
  • diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • 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.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
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