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14-letter words containing a, s, y

  • 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.
  • classificatory — the act of classifying.
  • clausius cycle — Rankine cycle.
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • collapsibility — (uncountable) The condition of being collapsible (or collapsable).
  • coloristically — In terms of, or in relation to, color; in a coloristic way.
  • 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.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • compostability — The quality of being compostable.
  • conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
  • conclusionally — the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
  • confessionally — in a confessional manner
  • 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.
  • contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
  • contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
  • copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
  • coronary sinus — a large venous channel in the heart wall that receives blood via the coronary veins and empties into the right atrium.
  • corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
  • cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
  • cosmologically — In a cosmological way.
  • courtesy coach — a free coach
  • cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
  • cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
  • cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • cryptaesthetic — of or relating to cryptaesthesia
  • cryptanalytics — cryptanalysis (def 1).
  • cryptoanalysis — cryptanalysis.
  • cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
  • cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • cryptosporidia — Plural form of cryptosporidium.
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • crystal gazing — the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • crystal palace — a building of glass and iron designed by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. Erected in Hyde Park, London, it was moved to Sydenham (1852–53): destroyed by fire in 1936
  • crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
  • crystal system — any of six, or sometimes seven, classifications of crystals depending on their symmetry. The classes are cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic. Sometimes an additional system, trigonal, is distinguished, although this is usually included in the hexagonal system
  • crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
  • crystalisation — Alternative spelling of crystallization.
  • crystallizable — That can be crystallized.
  • crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
  • currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
  • cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
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