14-letter words containing i, s, o, l, n
- 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 bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
- council estate — a housing development built by a local council
- council school — (esp formerly) any school maintained by the state
- councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
- criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
- 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 holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross-national — pertaining to or involving two or more nations.
- crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
- cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
- cryptoanalysis — cryptanalysis.
- crystalisation — Alternative spelling of crystallization.
- curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
- cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- deinstallation — The process of deinstalling.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demolitionists — Plural form of demolitionist.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- denationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of denationalise.
- depersonalised — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalise.
- depersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalize.
- depersonalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depersonalize.
- depolarisation — Alternative spelling of depolarization.
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- desalinisation — Removal of salt and other minerals from water; desalination.
- desalinization — desalt.
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
- diffusion line — a range of clothes made by a top fashion designer for a high-street retailer
- digitalisation — Alternative spelling of digitalization.
- dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disaffiliation — The termination of an affiliation; the act of ceasing to be associated with something.
- disapplication — a provision for exempting schools or individuals from the requirements of the National Curriculum in special circumstances