14-letter words containing u, n, c, r
- charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
- charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- chondrocranium — the cartilaginous structure that, in early development, envelops the brain
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- chronosequence — (geology) A sequence of different soils formed at different times.
- chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
- church council — (in certain Lutheran churches) a body of lay delegates chosen from the congregation and charged with supporting the pastor in religious instruction, contributions to the church, etc.
- church integer — (theory) A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- church, alonzo — Alonzo Church
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- circumcolumnar — surrounding a column.
- circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
- circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
- circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
- circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
- circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
- circumnutation — the irregular spiral or elliptical rotation of the apex of a growing stem, root, or shoot, caused by differences in the rate of growth of the opposite sides
- circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
- circumposition — the act of circumposing
- circumrotation — Rotation or revolution around an axis.
- circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
- cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
- coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
- code of honour — the standards of behaviour regarded as proper