14-letter words containing r, s, a
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- cleptoparasite — Alternative spelling of kleptoparasite.
- cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
- 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.
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- close quarters — a narrow cramped space or position
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
- co-conspirator — a fellow conspirator; associate or collaborator in a conspiracy.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- 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 dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
- coconspirators — Plural form of coconspirator.
- coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
- collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
- coloristically — In terms of, or in relation to, color; in a coloristic way.
- colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
- 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
- commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialise.
- commercializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialize.
- commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
- commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
- common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
- communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
- companion star — companion1 (def 6).
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
- compromisation — The act of compromising.
- concentrations — Plural form of concentration.
- concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.