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14-letter words containing o, d, s, u

  • cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
  • cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
  • capparidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Capparidaceae (or (Capparaceae), a family of plants, mostly shrubs including the caper, of warm tropical regions
  • cardiovascular — of the heart and the blood vessels as a unified body system
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
  • choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
  • clifford trust — a type of living trust set up for at least a 10-year period, during which the income goes to a beneficiary and after which the principal reverts to the grantor.
  • closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
  • closed couplet — a couplet that concludes with an end-stopped line.
  • closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
  • clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • compusult ltd. — A computer consulting firm (in Newfoundland, Canada?) that provides a public access Unix.
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conductivities — Plural form of conductivity.
  • conductor loss — Conductor loss is loss occurring in a conductor due to the flow of current.
  • conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  • consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
  • consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
  • contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
  • convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
  • corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
  • cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
  • cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
  • cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
  • crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
  • crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
  • cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
  • cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • 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.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • 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
  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
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