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14-letter words containing c, a, n, i, e

  • citronella oil — the yellow aromatic oil obtained from citronella grass, used in insect repellents, soaps, perfumes, etc
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • 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.
  • cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
  • 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
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
  • clive sinclair — (person)   Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research. Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • cocarcinogenic — of or relating to a cocarcinogen
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
  • coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
  • colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
  • 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
  • combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
  • 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.
  • commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
  • commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
  • committeewoman — a female member of a committee
  • common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
  • commonsensical — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
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