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14-letter words containing n, e, c, s

  • 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.
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
  • can't help sth — If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself.
  • 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.
  • cancer cluster — the occurrence of a higher than expected number of cancer cases in a small, defined geographical area or population.
  • cancer-causing — having the ability to induce the growth of a malignant tumour
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • canes venatici — a small faint constellation in the N hemisphere near Ursa Major that contains the globular cluster M3 and the spiral whirlpool galaxy M51
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
  • capriciousness — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • carbon process — a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine
  • carcinogenesis — the development of cancerous cells from normal ones
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • care assistant — a person who is paid to look after one or more severely handicapped people staying in residential accommodation
  • carelessnesses — Plural form of carelessness.
  • carnarvonshire — Caernarvon.
  • 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.
  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
  • case and paste — (programming)   (From "cut and paste") The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. This usually results in gross violation of the fundamental programming tenet, Don't Repeat Yourself. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using "case" statements. Leads to software bloat. In some circles of Emacs users this is called "programming by Meta-W", because Meta-W is the Emacs command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases. At DEC, this is sometimes called "clone-and-hack" coding.
  • case sensitive — case sensitivity
  • case statement — switch statement
  • case-sensitive — In computing, if a written word such as a password is case-sensitive, it must be written in a particular form, for example using all capital letters or all small letters, in order for the computer to recognize it.
  • casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
  • cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
  • casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
  • castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
  • castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • cellini's halo — Heiligenschein.
  • censoriousness — The state of being censorious.
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • centenarianism — the situation or condition of being a centenarian
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • central sulcus — a deep cleft in each hemisphere of the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe
  • centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
  • centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • Československo — Czechoslovakia
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