14-letter words containing l, o, r, a
- correctability — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- counterassault — a counterattack
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- court circular — (in countries having a monarchy) a daily report of the activities, engagements, etc, of the sovereign, published in a national newspaper
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- craniocerebral — relating to both the cranium and the cerebrum
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cream-coloured — cream in colour
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- critical point — the point on a phase diagram that represents the critical state of a substance
- critical ratio — a ratio associated with the probability of a sample, usually the ratio of the deviation from the mean to the standard deviation.
- croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross-cultural — Cross-cultural means involving two or more different cultures.
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- cross-national — pertaining to or involving two or more nations.
- cross-platform — (software, hardware) A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
- crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
- crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
- crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
- crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
- cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
- cryptoanalysis — cryptanalysis.
- cryptovolcanic — of or relating to a rock structure providing indirect or incomplete evidence of volcanism.
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
- crystalisation — Alternative spelling of crystallization.
- crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
- cyclone cellar — (in the US) a cellar designed to give protection from violent storms and cyclones
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance