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14-letter words containing r, u, c

  • culture center — the part of a culture area in which the most distinctive traits of the area are concentrated.
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
  • 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
  • cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
  • 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.
  • curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
  • curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
  • currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
  • currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
  • current assets — Current assets are assets which a company does not use on a continuous basis, such as stocks and debts, but which can be converted into cash within one year.
  • current rating — Current rating is the maximum current that a fuse will carry for an indefinite period without too much deterioration of the fuse element.
  • current source — A current source is a source that maintains the current at a particular value almost independent of the load conditions.
  • curtain raiser — a short play preceding a main play.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
  • cutis anserina — goose bumps.
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • 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)
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • data structure — an organized form, such as an array list or string, in which connected data items are held in a computer
  • 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
  • deep structure — a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • desert culture — the nomadic hunting, fishing, and gathering preagricultural post-Pleistocene phase in the American West, characterized by an efficient exploitation of varied natural resources that was continued by Amerindian cultures into historic times.
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • dioscoreaceous — of or relating to the Dioscoreaceae family of monocotyledonous plants that includes the yam (genus Dioscurea)
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • direct current — Electricity. an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc.
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • 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.
  • director's cut — an edited version of a movie that has not been altered by a studio and over which its director has complete artistic control.
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