14-letter words containing c, l, a, i
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- creatureliness — creatural.
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
- crested lizard — a long-tailed iguanid lizard, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, of arid areas in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, having a row of enlarged scales down the back.
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- criminalistics — the scientific study of criminal evidence
- criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- critical angle — the smallest possible angle of incidence for which light rays are totally reflected at an interface between substances of different refractive index
- critical point — the point on a phase diagram that represents the critical state of a substance
- critical ratio — a ratio associated with the probability of a sample, usually the ratio of the deviation from the mean to the standard deviation.
- critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
- critical state — the state of a substance in which two of its phases have the same temperature, pressure, and volume
- critical value — the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis.
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- cross-national — pertaining to or involving two or more nations.
- crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
- crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
- crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- crux australis — a small conspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere lying in the Milky Way near Centaurus. The four brightest stars form a cross the longer arm of which points to the south celestial pole
- cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
- cryptanalytics — cryptanalysis (def 1).
- cryptoanalysis — cryptanalysis.
- cryptovolcanic — of or relating to a rock structure providing indirect or incomplete evidence of volcanism.
- crystal gazing — the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- 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.
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- cyanocobalamin — a complex red crystalline compound, containing cyanide and cobalt and occurring in liver: lack of it in the tissues leads to pernicious anaemia. Formula: C63H88O14N14PCo
- cyanoplatinite — platinocyanide.
- cybernetically — using cybernetics
- cycloaliphatic — (of an organic compound) aliphatic in chemical behaviour but having its carbon atoms in a ring
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- cyclosilicates — Plural form of cyclosilicate.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- cystolithiasis — a medical condition caused by the formation of a calculus in the bladder
- cytidylic acid — nucleotide that is found in DNA
- cytopathologic — the science dealing with the study of the diseases of cells.
- 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