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

  • corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
  • corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
  • corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
  • 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.
  • corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
  • corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
  • cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
  • cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
  • cosmetologists — Plural form of cosmetologist.
  • cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
  • cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
  • cosmologically — In a cosmological way.
  • cosmopolitical — relating to all polities
  • cost of living — The cost of living is the average amount of money that people in a particular place need in order to be able to afford basic food, housing, and clothing.
  • cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
  • cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
  • cottonseed oil — a yellowish or dark red oil with a nutlike smell, extracted or expelled from cottonseed, used in cooking and in the manufacture of paints, soaps, etc
  • council bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
  • council estate — a housing development built by a local council
  • council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
  • council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
  • council school — (esp formerly) any school maintained by the state
  • council tenant — a tenant who rents a council house or council flat
  • councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
  • count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • county council — A county council is an organization which runs local government in a county in Britain.
  • coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
  • court circular — (in countries having a monarchy) a daily report of the activities, engagements, etc, of the sovereign, published in a national newspaper
  • court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
  • court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
  • 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
  • coxcombicality — the quality of being coxcombical
  • craniocerebral — relating to both the cranium and the cerebrum
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
  • 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.
  • criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
  • crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
  • 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.
  • crocodile bird — an African courser, Pluvianus aegyptius, that lives close to rivers and is thought to feed on insects parasitic on crocodiles
  • crocodile clip — a clasp with serrated interlocking edges used for making electrical connections
  • cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
  • cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
  • cross-compiler — a compiler able to create executable code for a platform different from the one the compiler is run on
  • cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
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