14-letter words containing s, u, n, c, r
- 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
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- 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.
- discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- 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.
- do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- 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.
- electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
- 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
- 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
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
- fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- gaussian curve — normal curve.
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
- heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- honours course — a degree course at honours level