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14-letter words containing u, n, t, i, m

  • 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.
  • 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
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
  • 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
  • community home — a home provided by a local authority for children who cannot remain with parents or relatives, or be placed with foster parents
  • community life — the life and activities of a community
  • concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
  • conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
  • 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
  • conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
  • contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
  • contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
  • contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
  • diminutiveness — The state or quality of being diminutive.
  • diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
  • disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
  • disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
  • dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
  • dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
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