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14-letter words containing a, c, i, n, e, t

  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
  • christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
  • christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
  • cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • cinnamon stone — essonite
  • circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • cis-trans test — a test to define the unit of genetic function, based on whether two mutations of the same character occur in a single chromosome (the cis position) or in different cistrons in each chromosome of a homologous pair (the trans position)
  • citizens' band — Citizens' Band is a range of radio frequencies which the general public is allowed to use to send messages to each other and is used especially by truck drivers in their vehicles. The abbreviation CB is often used.
  • citronella oil — the yellow aromatic oil obtained from citronella grass, used in insect repellents, soaps, perfumes, etc
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
  • class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
  • cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
  • 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
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
  • commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
  • committeewoman — a female member of a committee
  • community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
  • complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
  • concatenations — Plural form of concatenation.
  • 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.
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