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14-letter words containing a, c, y, l, o, i

  • caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
  • capital outlay — a capital expenditure.
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • choral society — an organization of amateur singers
  • chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
  • classificatory — the act of classifying.
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • cocktail party — A cocktail party is a party, usually held in the early evening, where cocktails or other alcoholic drinks are served. People often dress quite formally for them.
  • 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.
  • collapsibility — (uncountable) The condition of being collapsible (or collapsable).
  • coloristically — In terms of, or in relation to, color; in a coloristic way.
  • comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
  • compactibility — capable of being compacted: compactible rubbish.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • compostability — The quality of being compostable.
  • 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.
  • concentrically — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
  • conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
  • conciliatingly — So as to conciliate.
  • conciliatorily — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
  • conclusionally — the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
  • conditionality — imposing, containing, subject to, or depending on a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or allowed on certain terms: conditional acceptance.
  • 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.
  • confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
  • conformability — Conformableness.
  • 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.
  • conspiratorily — In a conspiratory manner.
  • consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
  • contact flying — flying an airplane in conditions of good visibility so that the course and altitude can be determined by observing points or objects on the ground; VFR
  • 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.
  • contracyclical — (of a policy) stabilizing the economy through countering major fluctuations, such as recessions or booms
  • contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
  • conventionally — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
  • corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
  • 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.
  • cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
  • cosmologically — In a cosmological way.
  • coxcombicality — the quality of being coxcombical
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