14-letter words containing t, u, m, e
- cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- counter jumper — a sales assistant in a shop
- counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countereconomy — an economy operating simultaneously with or in opposition to the established economic system.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cut the comedy — to stop joking
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- departure time — the time of departure of a train, bus, aircraft, etc
- deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diminutiveness — The state or quality of being diminutive.
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- dissimilitudes — Plural form of dissimilitude.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
- dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.