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14-letter words containing o, u, t, l

  • council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
  • council tenant — a tenant who rents a council house or council flat
  • count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
  • countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
  • countably many — countable
  • counter-boulle — contre-partie.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • court circular — (in countries having a monarchy) a daily report of the activities, engagements, etc, of the sovereign, published in a national newspaper
  • court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
  • court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
  • cross-cultural — Cross-cultural means involving two or more different cultures.
  • cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
  • cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • 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
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • 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.
  • cyclostomatous — having a circular mouth.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • 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.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
  • devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
  • diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
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