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14-letter words containing c, r, a

  • a can of worms — If you say that someone is opening a can of worms, you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something which is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize and which might be better left alone.
  • a crying shame — You can say that something is a crying shame if you are annoyed and upset about it.
  • a far cry from — Something that is a far cry from something else is very different from it.
  • a l'americaine — prepared with tomatoes, garlic, wine, shallots, and herbs: lobster à l’américaine.
  • a la francaise — in the French manner
  • a punta d'arco — (of performance of a musical passage for a stringed instrument) with the point of the bow.
  • abarticulation — (anatomy) An articulation, especially one that permits free motion in the joint; a hinge joint.
  • abbe condenser — a microscope condenser invented by Ernst Abbe (1840-1905), German physicist
  • abducens nerve — cranial nerve
  • abducent nerve — either one of the sixth pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that innervate the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.
  • abiotic factor — a nonliving condition or thing, as climate or habitat, that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it: Abiotic factors can determine which species of organisms will survive in a given environment.
  • aboriculturist — One skilled in arboricultural matters; one who plants, tends and maintains trees.
  • abortifacients — Plural form of abortifacient.
  • above reproach — perfect; beyond criticism
  • abraham cowleyAbraham, 1618–67, English poet.
  • absorbefacient — a medicine or other agent that promotes absorption
  • abstract class — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, a class designed only as a parent from which sub-classes may be derived, but which is not itself suitable for instantiation. Often used to "abstract out" incomplete sets of features which may then be shared by a group of sibling sub-classes which add different variations of the missing pieces.
  • abstract music — absolute music.
  • abstract space — a space whose elements are not geometric points, especially a function space.
  • abstractedness — The state of being abstracted; abstract character. (First attested in the mid 17th century.).
  • abstractionism — the theory and practice of the abstract, esp of abstract art
  • abstractionist — a person who produces abstract works of art.
  • academic dress — formal dress, usually comprising cap, gown, and hood, worn by university staff and students
  • acceleratingly — in an accelerating manner
  • accelerational — Of, pertaining to, or caused by acceleration.
  • accelerometers — Plural form of accelerometer.
  • accessory cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • accessory shoe — a bracket on top of a camera to which a flash unit or other accessory may be fitted
  • accident prone — If you describe someone or something as accident prone, you mean that a lot of accidents or other unpleasant things happen to them.
  • accident-prone — tending to have more accidents or mishaps than the average person.
  • accordion file — an expanding file made of ridged paper with separate compartments for different types of document
  • accordion-fold — to fold into pleats resembling the bellows of an accordion: to make a fan by accordion-folding a sheet of paper.
  • account holder — the person whose name is on a bank account
  • account number — the unique number given to an individual account with a bank, supplier, department store, service provider etc
  • accreditations — Plural form of accreditation.
  • accretion disc — the disc formed around a celestial body by the process of accretion
  • accretion disk — the rapidly spinning disk of gas that forms around the more compact component of a close binary star system as mass is transferred to the compact companion from the primary star.
  • accrued income — money which has been earned but has not yet been received
  • accusatorially — By way of accusation; in an accusatorial manner; by means of a formal accuser.
  • achondroplasia — a skeletal disorder, characterized by failure of normal conversion of cartilage into bone, that begins during fetal life and results in dwarfism
  • achromatically — In an achromatic manner.
  • acid anhydride — a compound formed by removing water from a more complex compound: an oxide of a nonmetal (acid anhydride) or a metal (basic anhydride) that forms an acid or a base, respectively, when united with water.
  • acleistocardia — a failure of the foramen ovale of the heart to close.
  • acorn barnacle — any of various barnacles, such as Balanus balanoides, that live attached to rocks and have a volcano-shaped shell from the top of which protrude feathery food-catching appendages (cirri)
  • acoustic nerve — either one of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from the organs of hearing and from the semicircular canals to the brain.
  • acquired drive — a drive, like the desire for money, that has not been inherited but is learned, presumably because it leads to the satisfaction of innate drives
  • acquired taste — If you describe something as an acquired taste, you mean that a lot of people do not like it when they first experience it, but often start to like it more when they get to know it better.
  • across country — If you travel across country, you travel through country areas, avoiding major roads and towns.
  • across the way — If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area.
  • acta sanctorum — a collection of lives of the saints edited by Jesuit scholars and first published in Antwerp in 1643

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