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

  • circumnutation — the irregular spiral or elliptical rotation of the apex of a growing stem, root, or shoot, caused by differences in the rate of growth of the opposite sides
  • circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
  • circumposition — the act of circumposing
  • circumrotation — Rotation or revolution around an axis.
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
  • coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
  • coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
  • code of honour — the standards of behaviour regarded as proper
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • colourlessness — The state or quality of being colourless.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
  • complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
  • compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
  • compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • 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
  • concert tuning — the standard tuning for a guitar: E A D G B E
  • concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
  • concurrent clu — (language)   A programming language extending CLU for concurrent processes, developed by by Hamilton in 1984.
  • conduct report — a report about the behaviour of a student, employee, prisoner etc
  • conducted tour — A conducted tour is a visit to a building, town, or area during which someone goes with you and explains everything to you.
  • conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
  • conductor loss — Conductor loss is loss occurring in a conductor due to the flow of current.
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • configurations — Plural form of configuration.
  • 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.
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