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14-letter words containing u, n, r, e, l, i

  • clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
  • conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
  • councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
  • cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
  • creatureliness — creatural.
  • cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
  • curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
  • duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first language — mother tongue
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