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14-letter words containing t, o, u, c

  • contrapuntists — Plural form of contrapuntist.
  • contributional — the act of contributing.
  • contributorily — In a contributory manner.
  • control column — a lever or pillar, usually fitted with a handwheel, used to control the movements of an aircraft
  • control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
  • contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
  • contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
  • convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
  • copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
  • coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
  • coquilhatville — former name of Mbandaka.
  • coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
  • corpus christi — a festival in honour of the Eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday
  • corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
  • corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
  • corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
  • corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
  • cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
  • cost-conscious — having an awareness of costs; careful about spending
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
  • cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
  • cottony jujube — an Indian evergreen shrub or small tree, Ziziphus mauritiana, of the buckthorn family, having leaves that are rusty-hairy on the underside and small, round, red, acid fruit.
  • council estate — a housing development built by a local council
  • council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
  • council tenant — a tenant who rents a council house or council flat
  • count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
  • count the cost — If someone counts the cost of something that has happened or will happen, they consider how the consequences of that action or event affect them.
  • countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
  • countably many — countable
  • counter jumper — a sales assistant in a shop
  • counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
  • counter-boulle — contre-partie.
  • counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
  • counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
  • counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.
  • counterassault — a counterattack
  • counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
  • counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
  • counterchanged — Exchanged.
  • countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
  • counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • counterculture — Counterculture is a set of values, ideas, and ways of behaving that are completely different from those of the rest of society.
  • countercurrent — a current flowing in an opposite direction to another current
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