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14-letter words containing e, n, r

  • catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • cayenne pepper — Cayenne pepper or cayenne is a red powder with a hot taste which is made from dried peppers and is used to flavour food.
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • cell reference — (spreadsheet)   A string identifying a particular cell in a spreadsheet, possibly relative to the cell containing the reference. A cell reference may be absolute (denoted by a "$" prefix in Excel) or relative (no prefix) in each dimension, thus, e.g. B$6 refers to the second cell across in the sixth row. The distinction between absolute and relative is only significant when the referring cell is copied, e.g. if cell A1, which refers to B$6, is copied to cell B1, then B1 will refer to C6. If the reference is to a cell in a different sheet then it is prefixed with the target sheet's name and an exclamation mark. E.g. "Sheet 1!B3".
  • cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • censoriousness — The state of being censorious.
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • centenarianism — the situation or condition of being a centenarian
  • center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
  • 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
  • central sulcus — a deep cleft in each hemisphere of the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe
  • central valley — the chief wine-producing region of California, centered in San Joaquin County.
  • 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.
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
  • centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • 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 pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • chain reaction — A chain reaction is a series of chemical changes, each of which causes the next.
  • champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
  • chancel screen — a screen separating the chancel from the main body of a church
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • change ringing — the art of ringing a series of tuned bells of different tones, as those hung in a church tower, according to any of various orderly sequences.
  • change-ringing — the art of bell-ringing in which a set of bells is rung in an established order which is then changed
  • channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • 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
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