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14-letter words containing ur

  • culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
  • curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
  • currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
  • currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
  • 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.
  • current source — A current source is a source that maintains the current at a particular value almost independent of the load conditions.
  • 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.
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • cypress spurge — a perennial herb, Euphorbia cyparissias, of Eurasia, having small, greenish-yellow flowers in dense clusters.
  • data structure — an organized form, such as an array list or string, in which connected data items are held in a computer
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • debenture bond — a corporate bond unsecured by any mortgage, dependent on the credit of the issuer.
  • debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
  • deep structure — a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • departure date — Your departure date is the date that you are expected to leave a hotel or other location.
  • departure gate — (in a large airport) any of the numbered exits leading to the airfield or aircraft
  • departure time — the time of departure of a train, bus, aircraft, etc
  • depressurizing — Present participle of depressurize.
  • desert culture — the nomadic hunting, fishing, and gathering preagricultural post-Pleistocene phase in the American West, characterized by an efficient exploitation of varied natural resources that was continued by Amerindian cultures into historic times.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • direct current — Electricity. an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc.
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
  • distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
  • district court — (in many states) the court of general jurisdiction.
  • district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
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