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

  • open classroom — a spacious instructional area shared by several groups or classes in elementary school, permitting more individualized, less supervised project learning and movement of pupils from one activity to another.
  • osteogenically — By osteogenesis.
  • papilionaceous — having an irregular corolla shaped somewhat like a butterfly, as the pea and other leguminous plants.
  • particularness — the quality of being exceptional or individual
  • passenger cell — the inside of a vehicle, in which people sit
  • patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • penalty clause — part of contract specifying a forfeit
  • pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • personal space — the variable and subjective distance at which one person feels comfortable talking to another.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • placement test — a test to determine a student's level of ability in one or more subjects in order to place the student with others of the same approximate ability.
  • planar process — a method of producing diffused junctions in semiconductor devices. A pattern of holes is etched into an oxide layer formed on a silicon substrate, into which impurities are diffused through the holes
  • play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • polar sequence — a series of stars in the vicinity of the N celestial pole whose accurately determined magnitudes serve as the standard for visual and photographic magnitudes of stars
  • polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
  • police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
  • postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
  • preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
  • preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
  • prosencephalon — the forebrain.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
  • race relations — relationships between races
  • ranunculaceous — belonging to the Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family of plants.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
  • residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
  • resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
  • sachsen-anhalt — German name of Saxony-Anhalt.
  • sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • salade niçoise — a cold dish consisting of hard-boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, olives, tomatoes, tuna fish, etc
  • sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
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