15-letter words containing ou
- counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
- countersubjects — Plural form of countersubject.
- countertendency — an opposite tendency
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- counting number — natural number
- country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
- country cottage — a small house in the country, esp one used for holidays
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
- country western — country music
- county palatine — the lands of a count palatine
- coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
- couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
- coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
- courier service — a special delivery service
- course of study — an extended period of organized study, often leading to a qualification
- court christian — ecclesiastical court.
- court of appeal — A Court of Appeal is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- court of arches — the court of appeal of the Province of Canterbury, formerly held under the arches of Bow Church
- court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
- court of equity — a court having jurisdiction in equity or administering justice in accordance with the principles of equity.
- court of honour — a military court that is instituted to investigate matters involving personal honour
- court of record — a court which has a permanent record of its proceedings maintained
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- courting mirror — a small mirror of c1800 having a border and cresting of glass painted with leaves and flowers in imitation of a Chinese style.
- cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
- cross of valour — the highest Canadian award for bravery
- crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
- crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
- current account — A current account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
- cut your losses — If you cut your losses, you stop doing what you were doing in order to prevent the bad situation that you are in becoming worse.
- cutthroat trout — a game fish (Salmo clarki) with a reddish patch under the jaw, usually found in high mountain streams near the NW North American coast
- dartmouth basic — (language) The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
- day in, day out — If you say that something happens day in, day out or day in and day out, you mean that it happens regularly over a long period of time.
- dead-cat bounce — a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend
- debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
- defence counsel — a barrister or group of barristers responsible for defending someone on trial
- deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
- dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
- dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- discontinuously — In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.