14-letter words containing u, n, t, e, a
- 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.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
- cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
- creatureliness — creatural.
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- 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.
- 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 rating — Current rating is the maximum current that a fuse will carry for an indefinite period without too much deterioration of the fuse element.
- 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.
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- cutis anserina — goose bumps.
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- 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
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- debutante ball — a formal ball at which young women of upper-class background are presented to society
- deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
- 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.
- deindividuated — Simple past tense and past participle of deindividuate.
- 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
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- deunionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
- discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.