14-letter words containing l, i, n, t
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- cholinomimetic — mimicking the action of choline, especially acetylcholine.
- chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
- citronella oil — the yellow aromatic oil obtained from citronella grass, used in insect repellents, soaps, perfumes, etc
- civilizational — relating to civilization
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- 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.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
- climate canary — a human being or other living organism whose lack of health indicates environmental problems, reminiscent of the way in which live canaries were once used to detect the presence of poisonous gas in coal mines
- climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- clinical trial — When a new type of drug or medical treatment undergoes clinical trials, it is tested directly on patients to see if it is effective.
- clinkety-clank — a succession of alternating clinks and clanks: the clinkety-clank of armored vehicles on the rough road.
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- close position — an arrangement of a chord that has the three upper voices close together
- 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-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
- coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- cocktail onion — a small pickled onion served with drinks
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- cognoscibility — capable of being known.
- coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
- coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
- collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
- collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
- collecting tin — a tin for donations of money for charity or another particular purpose
- collection box — A collection box is a box or tin that is used to collect money for charity.
- collectiveness — The state or quality of being collective.
- collectivizing — Present participle of collectivize.
- colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
- commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
- commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
- community life — the life and activities of a community
- 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.
- complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.