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14-letter words containing c, o, n, t, r, l

  • occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
  • oneirocritical — an interpreter of dreams.
  • optoelectronic — the branch of electronics dealing with devices that generate, transform, transmit, or sense optical, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation, as cathode-ray tubes, electroluminescent and liquid crystal displays, lasers, and solar cells.
  • organometallic — pertaining to or noting an organic compound containing a metal or a metalloid linked to carbon.
  • ornithological — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
  • orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).
  • out of control — wild, unrestrained
  • over-tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
  • overallocation — Excess allocation.
  • overanalytical — too analytical
  • overcentralize — to centralize excessively
  • overcontrolled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
  • paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
  • penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • port nicholson — the first British settlement in New Zealand, established on Wellington Harbour in 1840: grew into Wellington
  • post-conciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
  • preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
  • preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
  • precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • proxy conflict — a conflict between third parties, through whom enemies attack each other
  • pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
  • race relations — relationships between races
  • radicalization — to make radical or more radical, as in politics: young people who are being radicalized by extremist philosophies.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rationalized c — (language)   (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
  • re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • recalcitration — the act of being recalcitrant
  • recanalization — the reopening of a previously occluded passageway within a blood vessel.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • recolonization — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
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