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14-letter words containing l, o, r, e, n

  • conservational — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
  • conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • container line — a haulier or carrier that uses containers
  • contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
  • contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
  • control center — an administrative or operational center for a group of related activities: the control center for the new military offensive.
  • control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
  • control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
  • control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
  • controlledness — The degree to which something is controlled.
  • controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
  • controvertible — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
  • controvertibly — In a controvertible manner.
  • conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
  • convertibility — The quality of being convertible.
  • copolymerizing — Present participle of copolymerize.
  • coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
  • corneal reflex — Physiology. the closing of the eyelids induced by touching the cornea lightly.
  • cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
  • corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
  • councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
  • counter-boulle — contre-partie.
  • 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.
  • counterculture — Counterculture is a set of values, ideas, and ways of behaving that are completely different from those of the rest of society.
  • 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
  • counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • country people — people who live in the country
  • coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
  • 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
  • credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • 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 relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
  • 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.
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
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