14-letter words containing c, l, t
- cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
- cholesteatomas — Plural form of cholesteatoma.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- cholinomimetic — mimicking the action of choline, especially acetylcholine.
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
- christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
- chromatophilia — chromophilia.
- chromatophilic — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
- chrome leather — leather tanned with chrome.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
- cigarette girl — a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- circular light — light that is circularly polarized.
- circular pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- circumambulate — to walk around (something)
- circumgalactic — (astronomy) Surrounding a galaxy.
- circumlittoral — adjoining the shore
- circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
- circumlocutory — a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
- citronella oil — the yellow aromatic oil obtained from citronella grass, used in insect repellents, soaps, perfumes, etc
- civil rightist — a person who actively supports or works for safeguarding or obtaining civil rights.
- civil twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 6° below the horizon
- civilizational — relating to civilization
- clacton-on-sea — a town on the North Sea coast in Essex, England.
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
- clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
- class 5 switch — (communications) The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
- class conflict — conflict between different social or economic classes
- class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
- class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
- classification — A classification is a division or category in a system which divides things into groups or types.
- classificatory — the act of classifying.
- claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- cleft sentence — a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, especially a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the information being emphasized, as It was a mushroom that Alice ate instead of Alice ate a mushroom.
- cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.