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14-letter words containing i, n, l, s

  • chinook salmon — a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
  • chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
  • 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
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
  • circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
  • cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
  • cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
  • clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
  • clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
  • class conflict — conflict between different social or economic classes
  • class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
  • classification — A classification is a division or category in a system which divides things into groups or types.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
  • climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • clinopyroxenes — Plural form of clinopyroxene.
  • clive sinclair — (person)   Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research. Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.
  • close position — an arrangement of a chord that has the three upper voices close together
  • closed cornice — a slightly projecting wooden cornice composed of a frieze board and a crown molding without a soffit.
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • cognoscibility — capable of being known.
  • collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
  • collectiveness — The state or quality of being collective.
  • colliquescence — the potential for turning to liquid
  • colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
  • colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
  • colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
  • colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
  • come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
  • commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
  • common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
  • commonsensical — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
  • compassionless — having no compassion
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
  • complexionless — (of a person's face) pale
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
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