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14-letter words containing c, n, a, r

  • counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • courageousness — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
  • courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • cranberry tree — highbush cranberry.
  • cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
  • craniocerebral — relating to both the cranium and the cerebrum
  • crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
  • creatureliness — creatural.
  • credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
  • credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
  • credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
  • credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
  • credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
  • creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
  • creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
  • creme d'ananas — a liqueur flavored with pineapple.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • crepe marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
  • cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
  • crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
  • crimen injuria — an action that injures the dignity of another person, esp use of racially offensive language
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • criminalistics — the scientific study of criminal evidence
  • criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
  • critical angle — the smallest possible angle of incidence for which light rays are totally reflected at an interface between substances of different refractive index
  • critical point — the point on a phase diagram that represents the critical state of a substance
  • cro-magnon man — an early type of modern man, Homo sapiens, who lived in Europe during late Palaeolithic times, having tall stature, long head, and a relatively large cranial capacity
  • cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
  • cross reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
  • cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
  • cross trainers — training shoes for doing cross training
  • cross training — training in two or more sports to improve performance, esp on one's main sport
  • cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cross-national — pertaining to or involving two or more nations.
  • cross-reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
  • crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
  • crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
  • crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
  • crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • cruising range — the distance an aircraft can fly before it needs to refuel
  • cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
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