14-letter words containing s, u, r, o, n
- coronary sinus — a large venous channel in the heart wall that receives blood via the coronary veins and empties into the right atrium.
- coroner's jury — a jury called to give a decision by a coroner's inquest
- corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
- councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
- counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
- counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.
- counterassault — a counterattack
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- 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.
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- counterpersons — Plural form of counterperson.
- counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
- counterprotest — a protest which opposes an existing protest
- counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- countersigning — Present participle of countersign.
- countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- country cousin — If you refer to someone as a country cousin, you think that they are unsophisticated because they come from the country.
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- courageousness — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
- cross-question — If you cross-question someone, you ask them a lot of questions about something.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
- cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
- curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
- current source — A current source is a source that maintains the current at a particular value almost independent of the load conditions.
- curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.