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14-letter words containing a, c, e, y

  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • clickety-clack — a rhythmic, swiftly paced succession of alternating clicks and clacks, as the sound produced by the wheels of a train moving over tracks.
  • climate canary — a human being or other living organism whose lack of health indicates environmental problems, reminiscent of the way in which live canaries were once used to detect the presence of poisonous gas in coal mines
  • clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
  • community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
  • conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
  • concentratedly — with intense mental application
  • concentrically — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
  • conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
  • confessionally — in a confessional manner
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • connectability — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
  • consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
  • 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.
  • contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
  • continentality — the degree to which the climate of a region typifies that of the interior of a large landmass.
  • conventionally — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
  • copper cyanide — a creamy-white, highly poisonous, water-insoluble powder, CuCN, used chiefly in electroplating and in organic synthesis.
  • copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
  • correctability — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
  • courtesy coach — a free coach
  • cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • cranberry tree — highbush cranberry.
  • cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
  • cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
  • 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 attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • cryoextraction — the surgical removal of a cataract with a cryoprobe.
  • cryoprotectant — an agent which prevents cell damage caused by cryopreservation
  • cryptaesthetic — of or relating to cryptaesthesia
  • cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • crystal palace — a building of glass and iron designed by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. Erected in Hyde Park, London, it was moved to Sydenham (1852–53): destroyed by fire in 1936
  • crystal system — any of six, or sometimes seven, classifications of crystals depending on their symmetry. The classes are cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic. Sometimes an additional system, trigonal, is distinguished, although this is usually included in the hexagonal system
  • crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
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