14-letter words containing s, c, y, l, a
- collapsibility — (uncountable) The condition of being collapsible (or collapsable).
- coloristically — In terms of, or in relation to, color; in a coloristic way.
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- conclusionally — the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
- confessionally — in a confessional manner
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- conspiratorily — In a conspiratory manner.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
- cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
- cosmologically — In a cosmological way.
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- cryptanalytics — cryptanalysis (def 1).
- cryptoanalysis — cryptanalysis.
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- crystal gazing — the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- crystal palace — a building of glass and iron designed by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. Erected in Hyde Park, London, it was moved to Sydenham (1852–53): destroyed by fire in 1936
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- crystal system — any of six, or sometimes seven, classifications of crystals depending on their symmetry. The classes are cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic. Sometimes an additional system, trigonal, is distinguished, although this is usually included in the hexagonal system
- crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
- crystalisation — Alternative spelling of crystallization.
- crystallizable — That can be crystallized.
- crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
- cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- cyclooxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins; their inhibition is the mode of action of aspirin and ibuprofen.
- cyclosilicates — Plural form of cyclosilicate.
- cyclostomatous — having a circular mouth.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- cystolithiasis — a medical condition caused by the formation of a calculus in the bladder
- cytostatically — in a cytostatic manner
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
- delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
- delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
- describability — The quality of being describable.
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- disciplinarily — In a disciplinary way.
- disciplinarity — The quality of being an academic discipline.
- disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.