14-letter words containing c, s, t, o, l
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quetzalcoatlus — A large toothless pterosaur of the genus Quetzalcoatlus.
- race relations — relationships between races
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- roller-coaster — to go up and down like a roller coaster; rise and fall: a narrow road roller-coastering around the mountain; a light boat roller-coastering over the waves.
- rossel current — a seasonal Pacific Ocean current, a branch of the South Equatorial Current, flowing W and NW past New Guinea.
- rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
- sabbath school — Sunday school.
- saint nicholas — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
- sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
- satisfactional — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- scalar product — inner product (def 1).
- schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
- scholar's mate — a simple mate by the queen on the f7 square, achievable by white's fourth move
- scholastically — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- school edition — a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).
- school of arts — a public building in a small town, originally one used for adult education
- schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
- scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
- sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
- scotch thistle — a tall, prickly plant, Onopordum acanthium, native to Eurasia, having stems and leaves covered with cottony down and solitary purple flower heads: the national emblem of Scotland.
- secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
- selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
- self-collected — having or showing self-control; composed; self-possessed.
- self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
- self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
- self-contented — contented with what one is or has
- self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
- self-selection — selection made by or for oneself: goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.