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14-letter words containing c, l, a, m, e

  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
  • gaming licence — a licence that allows an establishment, business, club, etc, to offer games that can be played for money
  • ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
  • glycaemic load — an index indicating the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving of a particular food. It is calculated by multiplying the food's glycaemic index by its carbohydrate content in grams and then dividing by 100
  • gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
  • grammaticalize — to convert (a content word or part of one) into a functor, as in using OE līc, “body,” as a suffix in adjectives and adverbs, such as OE frēondlīc, “friendly.”.
  • guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
  • haematological — Alternative spelling of hematological.
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
  • hardshell clam — quahog.
  • hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • hypercalcaemia — a heightened level of calcium in the blood
  • hypercalcaemic — of or relating to hypercalcaemia
  • hyperglycaemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
  • hyperglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hyperglycemic.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • ibm compatible — (computer)   A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
  • immaculateness — The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
  • immethodically — Unmethodically.
  • immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
  • impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
  • imperial beach — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
  • incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
  • incrementalism — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
  • incrementalist — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • interracialism — action or policy for establishing equality and cooperation between different racial groups.
  • intramercurial — within Mercury's orbit
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • isodiametrical — isodiametric
  • jackknife clam — any bivalve mollusk of the family Solenidae, especially of the genus Ensis, having a long, rectangular, slightly curved shell.
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