14-letter words containing r, u, n, i
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
- circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
- circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
- 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.
- circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
- cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- 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.
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- 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).
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- 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.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- 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
- 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
- conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
- 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.
- congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- congratulation — the act of congratulating
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constructional — the act or art of constructing.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- constructivism — a movement in abstract art evolved in Russia after World War I, primarily by Naum Gabo, which explored the use of movement and machine-age materials in sculpture and had considerable influence on modern art and architecture
- constructivist — Fine Arts. a nonrepresentational style of art developed by a group of Russian artists principally in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by a severely formal organization of mass, volume, and space, and by the employment of modern industrial materials. Compare suprematism.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contour flying — the technique of flying at a constant altitude of less than 22.8 metres (75 feet) above the ground.