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14-letter words containing n, o, a, c, r, u

  • cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
  • currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
  • drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
  • duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
  • duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • 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.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
  • ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
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