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14-letter words containing a, o, l, e

  • camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • canada hemlock — a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, of eastern North America, having horizontal branches that often droop to the ground: the state tree of Pennsylvania.
  • canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
  • canonical name — (CNAME) A host's official name as opposed to an alias. The official name is the first hostname listed for its Internet address in the hostname database, /etc/hosts or the Network Information Service (NIS) map hosts.byaddr ("hosts" for short). A host with multiple network interfaces may have more than one Internet address, each with its own canonical name (and zero or more aliases). You can find a host's canonical name using nslookup if you say set querytype=CNAME and then type a hostname.
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • canton flannel — cotton flannel
  • cape cod canal — a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • caramelization — the conversion of sugar into caramel, caused by heating
  • carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • carriage clock — a portable clock, usually in a rectangular case with a handle on the top, of a type originally used by travellers
  • carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
  • castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • cellini's halo — Heiligenschein.
  • cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
  • cellular radio — radio communication based on a network of transmitters each serving a small area known as a cell: used in personal communications systems in which the mobile receiver switches frequencies automatically as it passes from one cell to another
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
  • central moment — a moment about the center of a distribution, usually the mean.
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
  • centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
  • centralization — the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
  • centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
  • cephalhematoma — Alt form cephalohematoma.
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
  • chalcotrichite — a fibrous variety of cuprite.
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
  • channelization — the action or process of channelizing
  • chapel of ease — a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church
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