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14-letter words containing c, s, t, o, l

  • ballast pocket — a depression that is formed beneath the ballast layer by penetration of ballast particles into the subgrade and that tends to collect moisture.
  • balto-slavonic — a hypothetical subfamily of Indo-European languages consisting of Baltic and Slavonic. It is now generally believed that similarities between them result from geographical proximity rather than any special relationship
  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • beclomethasone — a potent synthetic corticosteroid, C 28 H 37 ClO 7 , prepared as an inhalant in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
  • belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816
  • bilious attack — a group of symptoms consisting of headache, abdominal pain, and constipation
  • bioelectronics — a branch of electronics that deals with electronic devices, implants, etc. used in medicine and biological research
  • biolinguistics — the study of language functions as they relate to or derive from the biological characteristics of an organism.
  • bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
  • biostatistical — relating to biostatistics
  • blister copper — an impure form of copper having a blister-like surface due to the release of gas during cooling
  • block capitals — Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.
  • booster cables — jumper cables
  • boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
  • caloosahatchee — a river in S Florida, flowing W to the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers. 75 miles (121 km) long.
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • capitalisation — The act or process of capitalising.
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
  • castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
  • castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
  • casual contact — the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.
  • catastrophical — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
  • 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
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • 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
  • charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
  • charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
  • child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
  • chisholm trail — cattle trail from San Antonio, Tex., to Abilene, Kans.: important from 1865 until the 1880s
  • cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
  • cholecystotomy — the surgical procedure of cutting into the gall bladder in order to extract gallstones
  • cholelithiases — the presence of gallstones.
  • cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
  • cholesteatomas — Plural form of cholesteatoma.
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
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