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14-letter words containing u, n, s, e, t, c

  • cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
  • culzean castle — a Gothic Revival castle near Ayr in South Ayrshire, in SW Scotland: designed by Robert Adam (1772–92); includes a room dedicated to General Eisenhower
  • cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
  • cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
  • current assets — Current assets are assets which a company does not use on a continuous basis, such as stocks and debts, but which can be converted into cash within one year.
  • current source — A current source is a source that maintains the current at a particular value almost independent of the load conditions.
  • curtain raiser — a short play preceding a main play.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • cutis anserina — goose bumps.
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
  • deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
  • deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
  • discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
  • do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • ductless gland — endocrine gland.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • encaustic tile — a tile produced using the encaustic technique
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
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