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14-letter words containing cou

  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • 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.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • district court — (in many states) the court of general jurisdiction.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
  • drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • equity account — An equity account is an account recording ownership interests in a company.
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • honours course — a degree course at honours level
  • hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
  • in countenance — calm; composed
  • in one's court — in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game
  • income account — an account maintained for a particular item of revenue or income.
  • indian country — (especially during the U.S. westward migration) any region where one was likely to encounter Indians, especially hostile Indians.
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • kissing cousin — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
  • lecture course — a series of lectures on a particular subject
  • margin account — an account opened by a customer with a brokerage house in which listed securities can be purchased on margin.
  • miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
  • mother country — the country of one's birth or ancestry.
  • native country — the country someone is born in or native to
  • nicene council — either of two church councils that met at Nicaea, the first in a.d. 325 to deal with the Arian heresy, the second in a.d. 787 to consider the question of the veneration of images.
  • non-count noun — a noun, as water, electricity, or happiness, that typically refers to an indefinitely divisible substance or an abstract notion, and that in English cannot be used, in such a sense, with the indefinite article or in the plural.
  • non-recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
  • nonaccountable — not accountable
  • nonintercourse — suspension of interchange in relations, especially commercial or political relations.
  • nostro account — a bank account conducted by a British bank with a foreign bank, usually in the foreign currency
  • octave coupler — a mechanism on an organ and on some harpsichords that enables keys or pedals an octave apart to be played simultaneously
  • orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
  • parish council — local administrative body
  • people's court — small-claims court.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
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