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14-letter words containing n, o, c, u, l

  • counterculture — Counterculture is a set of values, ideas, and ways of behaving that are completely different from those of the rest of society.
  • 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
  • counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • country people — people who live in the country
  • county council — A county council is an organization which runs local government in a county in Britain.
  • coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
  • court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
  • cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
  • cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
  • curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • double coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
  • dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • eau de cologne — cologne.
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • 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.
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclusion zone — law: forbidden entry
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
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