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14-letter words containing c, l, a, n, s

  • stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
  • starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • street cleaner — a sanitation worker who cleans streets or sidewalks.
  • subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
  • sun animalcule — a heliozoan.
  • supermasculine — highly masculine
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
  • synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
  • synchronically — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
  • talismanically — in a talismanic manner
  • tax consultant — a person who advises other people and companies on tax affairs, esp on legal ways of paying less tax
  • teach a lesson — give a class, give instruction
  • technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
  • telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
  • the soo canals — the two ship canals linking Lakes Superior and Huron. There is a canal on the Canadian and on the US side of the rapids of the St Mary's River
  • to close ranks — If you say that the members of a group close ranks, you mean that they are supporting each other only because their group is being criticized.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • traffic island — a raised or marked-off area between lanes of a roadway, used by pedestrians to get out of the flow of traffic, as a place for traffic signals, for separating lanes, etc.
  • trans-atlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
  • trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • transcendental — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
  • transcorporeal — of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
  • transductional — of or relating to transduction
  • transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
  • transit circle — meridian circle.
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transplacental — across or passing through the placenta.
  • triconsonantal — having three consonants
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
  • ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
  • uncollectables — things that are not collectable
  • unconscionable — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
  • unconscionably — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
  • unconsolidated — brought together into a single whole.
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