14-letter words containing o, a, t
- carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
- cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
- casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
- 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
- castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
- casual contact — the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.
- catastrophical — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
- catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
- categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
- categorization — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
- cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
- catty-cornered — cater-cornered
- caustic potash — potassium hydroxide
- cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
- celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
- center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
- central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
- central moment — a moment about the center of a distribution, usually the mean.
- central office — (communications) The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
- centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
- centralization — the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
- 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
- centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
- centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
- cephalhematoma — Alt form cephalohematoma.
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
- cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
- certifications — Plural form of certification.
- chain reaction — A chain reaction is a series of chemical changes, each of which causes the next.
- chalcotrichite — a fibrous variety of cuprite.
- channelization — the action or process of channelizing
- chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
- chaptalization — a method of increasing the alcohol in a wine by adding sugar to the must before or during fermentation.
- character code — a machine-readable code that identifies a specified character or a set of such codes
- characterology — the academic study of character
- charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
- charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.