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14-letter words containing s, i, n, u, o, t

  • countersigning — Present participle of countersign.
  • countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
  • counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
  • country cousin — If you refer to someone as a country cousin, you think that they are unsophisticated because they come from the country.
  • country singer — a singer of country and western music
  • cross-question — If you cross-question someone, you ask them a lot of questions about something.
  • cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
  • cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • 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
  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
  • devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
  • devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
  • 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.
  • disillusionist — to disillusion.
  • disjoint union — In domain theory, a union (or sum) which results in a domain without a least element.
  • dispiteousness — the state of being without pity
  • disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
  • dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
  • dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
  • dissolutionist — a person whose aim is dissolution
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • 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
  • dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
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