14-letter words containing e, c, l, o, s
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contemplations — Plural form of contemplation.
- contemplatives — Plural form of contemplative.
- contemptuously — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- contextualises — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- contextualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contextualize.
- continentalism — an attitude, expression, etc., characteristic of a continent, especially of Europe.
- control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
- control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
- controlledness — The degree to which something is controlled.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
- convent school — A convent school is a school where many of the teachers are nuns.
- conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
- convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
- convulsiveness — The state or quality of being convulsive.
- coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
- cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
- coriolis force — a fictitious force used to explain a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the earth when observed from the earth. The deflection (Coriolis effect) is due to the earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
- cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
- cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
- cosmetologists — Plural form of cosmetologist.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
- cottonseed oil — a yellowish or dark red oil with a nutlike smell, extracted or expelled from cottonseed, used in cooking and in the manufacture of paints, soaps, etc
- council estate — a housing development built by a local council
- councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
- counterassault — a counterattack
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross-compiler — a compiler able to create executable code for a platform different from the one the compiler is run on
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.