14-letter words containing c, o, l, e, t, r
- congregational — of or relating to a congregation
- connaturalness — connaturality
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- conservational — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- container line — a haulier or carrier that uses containers
- contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
- control center — an administrative or operational center for a group of related activities: the control center for the new military offensive.
- control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
- control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
- control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
- controlledness — The degree to which something is controlled.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- controvertible — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- controvertibly — In a controvertible manner.
- conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
- convertibility — The quality of being convertible.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
- cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- correctability — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- counter-boulle — contre-partie.
- counterassault — a counterattack
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- counterculture — Counterculture is a set of values, ideas, and ways of behaving that are completely different from those of the rest of society.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- country people — people who live in the country
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
- credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
- 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-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
- 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.
- cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.