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14-letter words containing n, i, a, c

  • clive sinclair — (person)   Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research. Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • co-conspirator — a fellow conspirator; associate or collaborator in a conspiracy.
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • 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).
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
  • cocarcinogenic — of or relating to a cocarcinogen
  • cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • cocktail onion — a small pickled onion served with drinks
  • coconspirators — Plural form of coconspirator.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
  • coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
  • colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
  • colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
  • coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
  • combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • comma position — angulation (def 3).
  • comma-position — an angular part, position, or formation.
  • command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
  • commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
  • commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
  • commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
  • committeewoman — a female member of a committee
  • 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
  • common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
  • commonsensical — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
  • communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
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