14-letter words containing s, e, c, a, l
- brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
- breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
- business class — Business class seating on an aeroplane costs less than first class but more than economy class.
- c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
- cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
- calculatedness — the state of being calculated
- call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
- call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
- call-up papers — a letter containing order to report for service
- caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
- caloosahatchee — a river in S Florida, flowing W to the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers. 75 miles (121 km) long.
- calumniousness — Calumny.
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
- camp counselor — activities supervisor
- campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- can't help sth — If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself.
- canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
- cancer cluster — the occurrence of a higher than expected number of cancer cases in a small, defined geographical area or population.
- candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
- canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
- cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
- cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
- capital assets — any assets, tangible or intangible, that are held for long-term investment
- caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
- cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
- carelessnesses — Plural form of carelessness.
- carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
- carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
- carrier signal — (communications) A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
- casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
- casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
- 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.
- castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
- catachrestical — Catachrestic.
- 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
- celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- celestial city — the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.
- celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
- celiac disease — a chronic nutritional disorder, usually of young children, caused by faulty absorption of gluten in the intestines and characterized by diarrhea and malnutrition
- cellini's halo — Heiligenschein.
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- central sulcus — a deep cleft in each hemisphere of the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe
- centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.