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14-letter words containing c, l, a, s, e, r

  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • exercise class — an organized meeting in a gymnasium led by an instructor and involving various exercises designed to keep participants fit
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • eyeball search — (jargon)   (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • hardshell clam — quahog.
  • health service — system of medical care
  • 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.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • historicalness — The quality of being historical.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • hypersonically — In a hypersonic way.
  • inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
  • inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
  • 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.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • insular celtic — a partly geographical, partly genetic grouping of Celtic languages that consists of those spoken in the British Isles in ancient times and those descended from them.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • intercessional — an act or instance of interceding.
  • interracialism — action or policy for establishing equality and cooperation between different racial groups.
  • intersectional — of or relating to to an intersection, or a place where two or more roads, lines, or elements meet: intersectional traffic flow.
  • interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
  • irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • isentropically — in an isentropic manner
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