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14-letter words containing s, e, c, r

  • colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • colourlessness — The state or quality of being colourless.
  • colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • 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
  • come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
  • come on strong — If someone comes on strong, they make their intentions or feelings clear in an excessive or aggressive way.
  • 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
  • commodore sx64 — (computer)   A "portable" Commodore 64. Shaped vaguely like a seat cushion, this cumbersome experiment in transportable computers had a detachable keyboard on one end which, when removed, revealed a 6" monitor and a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive. The curious combination of a bulky design and microscopic display are the most likely cause for the SX64's discontinuation.
  • common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
  • common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
  • 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.
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
  • comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
  • compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
  • compute server — (computer, parallel)   A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
  • computer virus — virus
  • concentrations — Plural form of concentration.
  • concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.
  • concessionaire — A concessionaire is a person or company that has the right to sell a product or to run a business, especially in a building belonging to another business.
  • concrete class — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, a class suitable to be instantiated, as opposed to an abstract class.
  • concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
  • concretisation — Alternative spelling of concretization.
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • congresspeople — congressmen or congresswomen
  • congressperson — A Congressperson is a member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
  • coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
  • coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
  • connaturalness — connaturality
  • conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  • consent decree — a negotiated agreement of the parties to a lawsuit which resolves the disputed issues and is sanctioned by the court; often, specif., such an agreement by which the defendant agrees to cease an activity or practice asserted by the government to be illegal
  • conservational — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
  • conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
  • conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
  • conservatories — Plural form of conservatory.
  • considerations — Plural form of consideration.
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