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14-letter words containing a, r, o, n, i, c

  • circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
  • circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
  • circumnutation — the irregular spiral or elliptical rotation of the apex of a growing stem, root, or shoot, caused by differences in the rate of growth of the opposite sides
  • circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
  • circumrotation — Rotation or revolution around an axis.
  • 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.
  • citronella oil — the yellow aromatic oil obtained from citronella grass, used in insect repellents, soaps, perfumes, etc
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • co-conspirator — a fellow conspirator; associate or collaborator in a conspiracy.
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • cocarcinogenic — of or relating to a cocarcinogen
  • cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • coconspirators — Plural form of coconspirator.
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
  • coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
  • 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
  • command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
  • 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.
  • commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
  • common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
  • 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
  • companion star — companion1 (def 6).
  • compromisation — The act of compromising.
  • concelebration — the celebration of a Eucharist or Mass by two or more members of the clergy.
  • concentrations — Plural form of concentration.
  • concentrically — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
  • conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
  • concessionaire — A concessionaire is a person or company that has the right to sell a product or to run a business, especially in a building belonging to another business.
  • conciliatorily — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
  • concretisation — Alternative spelling of concretization.
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