14-letter words containing u, n, c, r
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
- colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
- colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
- colourlessness — The state or quality of being colourless.
- come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
- communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
- communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
- 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
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
- compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- concert tuning — the standard tuning for a guitar: E A D G B E
- concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
- concurrent clu — (language) A programming language extending CLU for concurrent processes, developed by by Hamilton in 1984.
- conduct report — a report about the behaviour of a student, employee, prisoner etc
- conducted tour — A conducted tour is a visit to a building, town, or area during which someone goes with you and explains everything to you.
- conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
- conductor loss — Conductor loss is loss occurring in a conductor due to the flow of current.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- congratulation — the act of congratulating
- congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
- connaturalness — connaturality
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- constructional — the act or art of constructing.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- constructivism — a movement in abstract art evolved in Russia after World War I, primarily by Naum Gabo, which explored the use of movement and machine-age materials in sculpture and had considerable influence on modern art and architecture
- constructivist — Fine Arts. a nonrepresentational style of art developed by a group of Russian artists principally in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by a severely formal organization of mass, volume, and space, and by the employment of modern industrial materials. Compare suprematism.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
- consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- contemperature — the action of mixing together harmoniously or proportionately
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.