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14-letter words containing o, u, t, r, a, e

  • don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • drag your feet — dawdle
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • draw-out table — draw table.
  • drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
  • electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • 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
  • espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • extraneousness — The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
  • fault tolerant — fault tolerance
  • fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
  • feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
  • 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.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • 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.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
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