14-letter words containing a, c, e, l, r, n
- congregational — of or relating to a congregation
- connaturalness — connaturality
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- conservational — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- container line — a haulier or carrier that uses containers
- contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
- conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
- corneal reflex — Physiology. the closing of the eyelids induced by touching the cornea lightly.
- cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
- coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
- corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
- counterassault — a counterattack
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
- craniocerebral — relating to both the cranium and the cerebrum
- creatureliness — creatural.
- credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- critical angle — the smallest possible angle of incidence for which light rays are totally reflected at an interface between substances of different refractive index
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
- crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
- crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- cybernetically — using cybernetics
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
- cyclone cellar — (in the US) a cellar designed to give protection from violent storms and cyclones
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- decolorization — decolor.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.