14-letter words containing c, i, t, y, a, n
- body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
- by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- call into play — to begin to operate
- chantilly lace — a delicate ornamental lace
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
- circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
- 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.
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- 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
- clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
- commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
- 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
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- concentrically — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
- conciliatingly — So as to conciliate.
- conciliatorily — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- conditionality — imposing, containing, subject to, or depending on a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or allowed on certain terms: conditional acceptance.
- confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- conformability — Conformableness.
- connectability — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- conspiratorily — In a conspiratory manner.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contact binary — a binary system in which the envelopes of gas surrounding each star are in contact.
- contact flying — flying an airplane in conditions of good visibility so that the course and altitude can be determined by observing points or objects on the ground; VFR
- contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- continentality — the degree to which the climate of a region typifies that of the interior of a large landmass.
- contractionary — involving or constituting economic contraction
- contracyclical — (of a policy) stabilizing the economy through countering major fluctuations, such as recessions or booms
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- conventionally — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.