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14-letter words containing r, e, p, u

  • counterproject — an opposing project or scheme
  • counterprotest — a protest which opposes an existing protest
  • counterpunched — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpunch.
  • counterpuncher — a boxer who waits for an opponent to attack before punching
  • counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
  • country people — people who live in the country
  • coup de foudre — a sudden and amazing action or event
  • coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
  • coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
  • courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
  • court reporter — a reporter who writes about legal trials
  • creeping jesus — an obsequious or servile person
  • crêpes suzette — crêpes rolled or folded in a hot, orange-flavored sauce and usually served in flaming brandy
  • cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
  • cryptocurrency — a decentralized digital medium of exchange which is created, regulated, and exchanged using cryptography and (usually) open source software
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
  • curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • cypress spurge — a perennial herb, Euphorbia cyparissias, of Eurasia, having small, greenish-yellow flowers in dense clusters.
  • czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
  • daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
  • deep structure — a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied
  • departure date — Your departure date is the date that you are expected to leave a hotel or other location.
  • departure gate — (in a large airport) any of the numbered exits leading to the airfield or aircraft
  • departure time — the time of departure of a train, bus, aircraft, etc
  • depressurizing — Present participle of depressurize.
  • deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
  • despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • direct product — a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.
  • disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
  • drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • draw a picture — represent sth visually
  • drop-down menu — pull-down menu
  • drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
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