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14-letter words containing c, a, r, i, t

  • kakistocracies — Plural form of kakistocracy.
  • karnatak music — the classical music of South India
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • karyotypically — (cytology) With regard to the karyotype.
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • kinematic pair — pair1 (def 10).
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • latin american — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
  • lechatelierite — a mineral, an amorphous form of silica formed by the fusion by heat of silica and found in fulgurites.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • letter carrier — mail carrier.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
  • light aircraft — A light aircraft is a small aeroplane that is designed to carry a small number of passengers or a small amount of goods.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • liquid crystal — a liquid having certain crystalline characteristics, especially different optical properties in different directions when exposed to an electric field.
  • lithochromatic — relating to or produced by painting on stone
  • lithographical — Of or pertaining to lithography.
  • little america — a base in the Antarctic, on the Bay of Whales, S of the Ross Sea: established by Adm. Richard E. Byrd of the U.S. Navy in 1929; used for later Antarctic expeditions.
  • little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • macro-mutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
  • macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
  • magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
  • magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • major mitchell — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, with a white-and-pink plumage
  • manometrically — Using a manometer.
  • map projection — a projecting or protruding part. Synonyms: overhang, protrusion, jut.
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • margin account — an account opened by a customer with a brokerage house in which listed securities can be purchased on margin.
  • mariana trench — a depression in the ocean floor of the Pacific, S and W of the Mariana Islands: site of greatest known depth of any ocean. 36,201 feet (11,034 meters) deep.
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
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