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

  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • bloc québécois — (in Canada) a political party that advocates autonomy for Quebec
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • booster cables — jumper cables
  • boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • bull stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
  • business class — Business class seating on an aeroplane costs less than first class but more than economy class.
  • business cycle — the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country
  • business lunch — a lunch at which business is discussed or transacted
  • c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
  • c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
  • calculatedness — the state of being calculated
  • call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
  • call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
  • call-up papers — a letter containing order to report for service
  • caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
  • caloosahatchee — a river in S Florida, flowing W to the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers. 75 miles (121 km) long.
  • calumniousness — Calumny.
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • can't help sth — If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself.
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • cancer cluster — the occurrence of a higher than expected number of cancer cases in a small, defined geographical area or population.
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
  • capital assets — any assets, tangible or intangible, that are held for long-term investment
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • carelessnesses — Plural form of carelessness.
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
  • carrier signal — (communications)   A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
  • casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
  • castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
  • catachrestical — Catachrestic.
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
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