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14-letter words containing s, c, u, n

  • deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
  • discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
  • dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
  • do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
  • ductless gland — endocrine gland.
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • encaustic tile — a tile produced using the encaustic technique
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • 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
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclusion zone — law: forbidden entry
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
  • excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
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