14-letter words containing a, c, t, u, l
- contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
- contributional — the act of contributing.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- coquilhatville — former name of Mbandaka.
- coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
- corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
- corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
- cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
- council estate — a housing development built by a local council
- council tenant — a tenant who rents a council house or council flat
- count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
- countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
- countably many — countable
- 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.
- court circular — (in countries having a monarchy) a daily report of the activities, engagements, etc, of the sovereign, published in a national newspaper
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
- creatureliness — creatural.
- crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- critical value — the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis.
- croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
- cross-cultural — Cross-cultural means involving two or more different cultures.
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- crux australis — a small conspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere lying in the Milky Way near Centaurus. The four brightest stars form a cross the longer arm of which points to the south celestial pole
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
- cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
- culzean castle — a Gothic Revival castle near Ayr in South Ayrshire, in SW Scotland: designed by Robert Adam (1772–92); includes a room dedicated to General Eisenhower
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
- cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- cyclostomatous — having a circular mouth.
- damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
- deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.