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14-letter words containing c, o, t, e

  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
  • central moment — a moment about the center of a distribution, usually the mean.
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
  • centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
  • centralization — the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
  • cephalhematoma — Alt form cephalohematoma.
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • cercopithecoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys)
  • ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • chain reaction — A chain reaction is a series of chemical changes, each of which causes the next.
  • chalcotrichite — a fibrous variety of cuprite.
  • channelization — the action or process of channelizing
  • chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
  • character code — a machine-readable code that identifies a specified character or a set of such codes
  • characterology — the academic study of character
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • charter colony — a colony, such as Virginia or Massachusetts, created by royal charter under the control of an individual, trading company, etc, and exempt from interference by the Crown
  • charter school — an alternative school that is founded on a charter, or contract, between a sponsoring group and a governmental unit and is funded with public money
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
  • cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
  • cheesebox seat — a chair seat, usually of rush, having a rounded form and surrounded with a thin strip of wood.
  • chemical toner — toner (def 4).
  • chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
  • chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
  • chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
  • chemoreceptive — responsive to chemical stimuli
  • chemoreceptors — Plural form of chemoreceptor.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chemosterilize — to sterilize (insects or other animals) with a chemosterilant.
  • chemosynthesis — the formation of organic material by certain bacteria using energy derived from simple chemical reactions
  • chemosynthetic — That utilizes chemosynthesis.
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