14-letter words containing a, n, y
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
- circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
- cisnormativity — (LGBT, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
- ciudad guayana — an industrial conurbation in E Venezuela, on the River Orinoco: iron and steel processing, gold mining. Pop: 807 000 (2005 est)
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
- 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.
- 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.
- congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
- 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.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contact binary — a binary system in which the envelopes of gas surrounding each star are in contact.
- 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.
- contractionary — involving or constituting economic contraction
- contracyclical — (of a policy) stabilizing the economy through countering major fluctuations, such as recessions or booms
- contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.