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14-letter words containing e, t, a, c

  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
  • categorization — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
  • cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
  • cattle breeder — a person who breeds and raises cattle
  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • 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
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • celestial city — the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • centenarianism — the situation or condition of being a centenarian
  • 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
  • cephalhematoma — Alt form cephalohematoma.
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • 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.
  • certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
  • cevitamic acid — ascorbic acid
  • chain reaction — A chain reaction is a series of chemical changes, each of which causes the next.
  • chalcotrichite — a fibrous variety of cuprite.
  • channel tunnel — the Anglo-French railway tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel, between Folkestone and Coquelles, near Calais; opened in 1994
  • channelization — the action or process of channelizing
  • chantilly lace — a delicate ornamental lace
  • 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
  • character code — a machine-readable code that identifies a specified character or a set of such codes
  • character part — a lesser role in a drama, but one where the actor is called upon to display particular distinctive traits of character
  • character type — a cluster of personality traits commonly occurring together in an individual
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