14-letter words containing c, i, l, o, s
- council school — (esp formerly) any school maintained by the state
- councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
- crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross-compiler — a compiler able to create executable code for a platform different from the one the compiler is run on
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
- cross-national — pertaining to or involving two or more nations.
- cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
- crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
- cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
- cryptoanalysis — cryptanalysis.
- 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.
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
- cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- cyclosilicates — Plural form of cyclosilicate.
- cystolithiasis — a medical condition caused by the formation of a calculus in the bladder
- cytostatically — in a cytostatic manner
- czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- dialectologist — a specialist in dialectology.
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disapplication — a provision for exempting schools or individuals from the requirements of the National Curriculum in special circumstances
- disceptatorial — disputable
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- discolorations — Plural form of discoloration.
- discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disconnectedly — In a disconnected manner.