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14-letter words containing c, o, a, l

  • cream-coloured — cream in colour
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
  • critical point — the point on a phase diagram that represents the critical state of a substance
  • critical ratio — a ratio associated with the probability of a sample, usually the ratio of the deviation from the mean to the standard deviation.
  • croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
  • cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
  • cross-cultural — Cross-cultural means involving two or more different cultures.
  • cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
  • cross-national — pertaining to or involving two or more nations.
  • cross-platform — (software, hardware)   A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
  • 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.
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
  • cryptoanalysis — cryptanalysis.
  • cryptovolcanic — of or relating to a rock structure providing indirect or incomplete evidence of volcanism.
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
  • crystalisation — Alternative spelling of crystallization.
  • crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
  • cyanoacetylene — a nitrile compound known to exist in interstellar clouds
  • cyanocobalamin — a complex red crystalline compound, containing cyanide and cobalt and occurring in liver: lack of it in the tissues leads to pernicious anaemia. Formula: C63H88O14N14PCo
  • cyanoplatinite — platinocyanide.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • cycloaliphatic — (of an organic compound) aliphatic in chemical behaviour but having its carbon atoms in a ring
  • cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • cyclone cellar — (in the US) a cellar designed to give protection from violent storms and cyclones
  • cyclooxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins; their inhibition is the mode of action of aspirin and ibuprofen.
  • cyclopentolate — a medicine administered as an eye drop that causes pupil dilation and relaxes the lens
  • cyclosilicates — Plural form of cyclosilicate.
  • cyclostomatous — having a circular mouth.
  • cystolithiasis — a medical condition caused by the formation of a calculus in the bladder
  • cytopathologic — the science dealing with the study of the diseases of cells.
  • cytostatically — in a cytostatic manner
  • czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
  • dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
  • dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
  • decimalization — Alternative spelling of decimalisation.
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