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14-letter words containing u, n, a, d, o

  • buffalo indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto-Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and were often in touch with one another so that the development among them of common culture traits is noticeable.
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • chondrocranium — the cartilaginous structure that, in early development, envelops the brain
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
  • compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
  • conduplication — (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.
  • conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  • consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
  • contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualized — Simple past tense and past participle of contextualize.
  • contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
  • cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
  • counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
  • counterchanged — Exchanged.
  • countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
  • countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
  • countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
  • credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
  • crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
  • cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
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