14-letter words containing l, a, s, i, n
- call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
- calumniousness — Calumny.
- canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
- canary islands — a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the NW coast of Africa, forming an Autonomous Community of Spain. Capital: Las Palmas. Pop: 1 944 700 (2003 est)
- cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
- capitalisation — The act or process of capitalising.
- captain's walk — widow's walk
- caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
- carnival glass — a colorful iridescent pressed glassware popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century.
- carrier signal — (communications) A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
- caucasian lily — a tall lily plant, Lilium monadelphum, having large, fragrant, drooping golden-yellow flowers.
- cayman islands — three coral islands in the Caribbean Sea northwest of Jamaica: a dependency of Jamaica until 1962, now a UK Overseas Territory. Capital: George Town. Pop: 53 737 (2013 est). Area: about 260 sq km (100 sq miles)
- cellini's halo — Heiligenschein.
- centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
- chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charles's wain — Big Dipper
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
- chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- 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.
- clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
- 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.
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
- cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
- collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
- colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
- colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
- colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
- combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.