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14-letter words containing l, u, n, a, r

  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
  • conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulation — the act of congratulating
  • congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
  • connaturalness — connaturality
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
  • constructional — the act or art of constructing.
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
  • contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
  • contributional — the act of contributing.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
  • corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
  • corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
  • council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
  • counterassault — a counterattack
  • counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
  • creatureliness — creatural.
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
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