14-letter words containing n, a, s, c
- coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
- cooperationist — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- coordinateness — The state, quality or condition of being coordinate.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
- coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
- coronary sinus — a large venous channel in the heart wall that receives blood via the coronary veins and empties into the right atrium.
- corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
- corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
- cotton stainer — any of various heteropterous insects of the genus Dysdercus: serious pests of cotton, piercing and staining the cotton bolls: family Pyrrhocoridae
- council estate — a housing development built by a local council
- counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.
- counterassault — a counterattack
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- courageousness — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- creatureliness — creatural.
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
- creme d'ananas — a liqueur flavored with pineapple.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- criminalistics — the scientific study of criminal evidence
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross trainers — training shoes for doing cross training
- cross training — training in two or more sports to improve performance, esp on one's main sport
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cross-national — pertaining to or involving two or more nations.
- cross-reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
- cruising range — the distance an aircraft can fly before it needs to refuel
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryptanalytics — cryptanalysis (def 1).