14-letter words containing s, t, o, r, e
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- cross trainers — training shoes for doing cross training
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
- cross-question — If you cross-question someone, you ask them a lot of questions about something.
- cross-reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
- crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
- cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- 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.
- current source — A current source is a source that maintains the current at a particular value almost independent of the load conditions.
- 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
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- data processor — a computer that is capable of performing operations on data in order to extract information, reorder files, etc
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- 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
- decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- depolarisation — Alternative spelling of depolarization.
- deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
- dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
- dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions