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14-letter words containing u, r, o, m

  • contact number — a person's telephone number
  • contemperature — the action of mixing together harmoniously or proportionately
  • 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.
  • control column — a lever or pillar, usually fitted with a handwheel, used to control the movements of an aircraft
  • corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
  • cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
  • counter jumper — a sales assistant in a shop
  • counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countereconomy — an economy operating simultaneously with or in opposition to the established economic system.
  • counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
  • countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
  • countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
  • counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
  • coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
  • court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
  • cream-coloured — cream in colour
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
  • croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
  • cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
  • cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
  • currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • double bedroom — a large bedroom
  • double drummer — a type of cicada
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • drop-down menu — pull-down menu
  • drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
  • drummond light — calcium light.
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